0 a chemical element that is a silver-white, poisonous metal. It is hard but easily broken and is used to make other metals harder and stronger and to make semiconductors for computers.
Great harm was done by the abuse of antimony, but then great harm is done by the abuse of anything, no matter how good it may be.
His studies in antimony were made mainly with the idea of showing how that substance might be used in medicine.
Seven yellows were woven into his robe, and his frizzed hair was stained with antimony.
The industries include brewing, saw-milling, lace-making and antimony mining and founding.
They do so even yet, and when antimony was administered there was no doubt about its working.
Using a combination of mollusciciding (sodium pentachlorophenate) and mass chemotherapy (sodium antimony tartrate), interruption of transmission to children was achieved by 1962.
Other common procedures for separating gold from silver were the melting of the metals with sulfur or stibnite (antimony sulfide).
Arsenic and cadmium were not detected at any site, and antimony was detectable at only one site.