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unusual facts about Arsenic sulfide


Arsenic sulfide

Arsenic trisulfide, As2S3, the mineral orpiment



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Paphlagonia

The most considerable towns of the interior were Gangra – in ancient times the capital of the Paphlagonian kings, afterwards called Germanicopolis, situated near the frontier of Galatia – and Pompeiopolis, in the valley of the Amnias river, near extensive mines of the mineral called by Strabo sandarake (red arsenic or arsenic sulfide), largely exported from Sinope.