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Definition of Antimony

Antimony
Antimony An"ti*mo*ny (?; 112), n. [LL. antimonium, of unknown origin.] (Chem.) An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb. Note: It is of tin-white color, brittle, laminated or crystalline, fusible, and vaporizable at a rather low temperature. It is used in some metallic alloys, as type metal and bell metal, and also for medical preparations, which are in general emetics or cathartics. By ancient writers, and some moderns, the term is applied to native gray ore of antimony, or stibnite (the stibium of the Romans, and the sti`mmi of the Greeks, a sulphide of antimony, from which most of the antimony of commerce is obtained. Cervantite, senarmontite, and valentinite are native oxides of antimony.

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- Antimony is a chemical element; it has symbol Sb (from Latin stibium) and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it is found in nature mainly...
- Look up antimony, antimon, antimoney, antimonic, or stibium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Antimony is a chemical element with symbol Sb and atomic...
- Antimony(III) oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Sb2O3. It is the most important commercial compound of antimony. It is found in nature as...
- 15 consists of the elements nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), ****nic (As), antimony (Sb), bi****h (Bi), and moscovium (Mc). This is also the only group in...
- Antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) is found in nature as the crystalline mineral stibnite and the amorphous red mineral (actually a mineraloid) metastibnite....
- Antimony sulfide may refer to either of two compounds of antimony and sulfur: Antimony trisulfide, Sb2S3 Antimony pentasulfide, Sb2S5, known as antimony...
- butter of antimony. Antimony trichloride is prepared by reaction of chlorine with antimony, antimony tribromide, antimony trioxide, or antimony trisulfide...
- Antimony is a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. The po****tion was 118 at the 2020 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the...
- metalloid antimony. The name is derived from the Gr**** στίβι stibi through the Latin stibium as the former name for the mineral and the element antimony. Stibnite...
- Antimony Peak is a steep peak located in southern Kern County, in the San Emigdio Mountains of the Transverse Ranges of California. It is the taller one...