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Arsenic(III) chloride adds to acetylene to give "lewsite", a World War I chemical warfare agent.

HC≡CH
  +  
AsCl3
  +  
AlCl3
         
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Addition
Addition: Electrophilic

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