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Antimony
//ˈæn.tɪˌmoʊ.ni// noun
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Noun
- 1 A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal. countable, uncountable
"Deep in the Salmon River Mountains, an Idaho mining company, Perpetua Resources, is proposing a vast open-pit gold mine that would also produce 115 million pounds of antimony — an element that may be critical to manufacturing the high-capacity liquid-metal batteries of the future."
- 2 a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite wordnet
- 3 The alloy stibnite. countable, uncountable
"In quality synergistic additives in a composition use oxide antimonies."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin antimonium, attested in the 11th century; see also the Wikipedia section.
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