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Definition of Stibium

1. n. The technical name of antimony.

Definition of Stibium

1. Noun. antimony ¹

2. Noun. kohl: stibnite used in ancient Egypt and Rome for eye cosmetics. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stibium

1. antimony [n -S] - See also: antimony

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stibium

Literary usage of Stibium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms: Predynastic Antiquities by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, Harry Reginald Hall (1904)
"Haematite stibium pot, the upper part of which is plated with gold [No. ... Green glazed steatite stibium pot, with hollow-work side, on four- legged stand ..."

2. A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms: Predynastic Antiquities by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, Harry Reginald Hall (1904)
"Haematite stibium pot, the upper part of which is plated with gold [No. 32151]. No. 28. ... Opaque blue glass stibium pot, with cover, edged with gold. ..."

3. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals by Georg Langbein (1898)
"It serves for the preparation of antimony baths, and for coloring copper alloys black. b. Red sulphide of antimony (stibium ..."

4. A Synopsis of Criticisms Upon Those Passages of the Old Testament in which by Richard Arthur Francis Barrett (1847)
"... (stibium) will I lay thy stone*, ie, I will use it as cement in laying thy walls. Ver. ... stibium ..."

5. A Treatise on Materia Medica (including Therapeutics and Toxicology) by Hermann Nothnagel, Michael Joseph Rossbach (1883)
"ANTIMONY—ANTIMONIUM S. stibium. All of the soluble and absorbable antimony compounds have the greatest similarity in their general physiological action. ..."

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