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the great, as there are records of the bishop, scholar, and alchemist producing elemental arsenic in ad. however, arsenic compounds have been known since antiquity, and earlier alchemists may have accomplished this feat as well. whereas many more recently discovered elements have names with greek roots
, arsenic's roots are older, as the greek arsenikon was derived from syriac and persian words for "yellow orpiment", which is a naturally occurring arsenic(iii) sulfide mineral. the name came into latin as arsenicum, and to old french as arsenic, which was adopted as the english word for the element....
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