Definition of Antimony
1. Noun. A metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite.
Definition of Antimony
1. n. 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.
Definition of Antimony
1. a metallic element [n -NIES]
Medical Definition of Antimony
1.
An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances.
It is of tin-white colour, 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 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.)
Abbreviation: Sb
Origin: LL. Antimonium, of unknown origin.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)
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