Arsenic is element 33, a metalloid of the p block, in group 15, period 4. Its ground-state configuration is [Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p3, and it usually shows the oxidation states -3, 0, 3, 5.
It was discovered in 1250, by Albertus Magnus.
Name origin: English word (Latin arsenicum).
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