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Mal

Mal, White- Arsenic, Yellow-Arsenic

TRADE NAME


Arsenic, White Arsenic, Yellow Arsenic

MOLECULAR FORMULA


Arsenic (As, Number : 33), White Arsenic (As2O3), Yellow Arsenic (As2S3).

SYNONYMS


Somal, Mal, Arsenic, Yellow Arsenic, White Arsenic

ABOUT

Arsenic was first written about by Albertus Magnus (Germany) in 1250. This is a notoriously poisonous metalloid that has many allotropic forms. The most important compounds of Arsenic are
  • Shwet Mal, White Arsenic (Arsenic (III) oxide,As2O3). White Arsenic is also known as Sankhya- Mal and is preffered as medicine

  • Mal, Yellow Arsenic (As2S3). Yellow - Arsenic is considered fatal and not preffered for use in Ayurveda.

SHODHAN OR AYURVEDA PURIFICATION PROCESS

SUGGESTED READING

Check wikipedia.org Entry for Mal.