Poisoning of animals by inorganic arsenic
Description
These include arsenic trioxide, arsenic pentoxide, sodium and
potassium arsenate, sodium and potassium arsenite, and lead or calcium arsenate.
Trivalent arsenicals, also known as arsenites, are more soluble and, therefore,
more toxic than the pentavalents or arsenate compounds. The lethal oral dose of
sodium arsenite in most species is between 1 and 25 mg/kg. Cats may be more
sensitive. Arsenates (pentavalents) are 5-10 times less toxic than arsenites.
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