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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
antimony
n : a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a
wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite [syn: {Sb}, {atomic
number 51}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Antimony, UT (town, FIPS 1860)
Location: 38.10089 N, 111.98358 W
Population (1990): 83 (59 housing units)
Area: 26.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 84712
From Elements database 20001107 [elements]:
antimony
Symbol: Sb
Atomic number: 51
Atomic weight: 121.75
Element of group 15. Multiple allotropic forms. The stable form of
antimony is a blue-white metal. Yellow and black antimony are unstable
non-metals. Used in flame-proofing, paints, ceramics, enamels, and rubber.
Attacked by oxidizing acids and halogens. First reported by Tholden in
1450.
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