See inheritance powder on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 316:",
"text": "`Arsenic was very popular in the old days [...] Inheritance powder, they called it. Pure, deadly, white, dissolves in any weak acid.'",
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