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Arsenic compounds were mined by the early Chinese, Egyptian and Greek civilisations. So, arsenic has been around and in use in different ways since antiquity - long before it was first documented (which is the first credited discovery) by Albertus Magnus, a German scientist, in 1250.

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Were was the element arsenic discovered?

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Is arsenic diatomic?

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