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It is believed that both Napoleon Bonaparte and the 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor, were poisoned by arsenic.

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How do you remove arsenic from the body?

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What is the scientific name for arsenic?

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How many ion pairs of arsenic electrons in AsI3?

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