antimony

English

Chemical element
Sb
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Sample of antimony.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin antimonium attested in the 11th century; see also the Wikipedia section.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/, enPR: ăn'tĭmənē
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪˌmoʊ.ni/, enPR: ăn'tĭmōnē

Noun

antimony (countable and uncountable, plural antimonies)

A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: a lustrous gray metalloid.
Synonym: stibium
- 2021 December 27, Jack Healy; Mike Baker, “As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear a Repeat of the Past”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
  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.
The alloy stibnite.
Synonym: stibium
- 2005, Al Berlin, Chemical Physics of Pyrolysis, Combustion, and Oxidation, →ISBN, page 21:
  In quality synergistic additives in a composition use oxide antimonies.

Usage notes

Do not confuse with antinomy (“contradiction or paradox”).

Derived terms

antimonate
antimonial
antimonian
antimoniate
antimoniated
antimonic
antimonide
antimonioso-
antimonious, antimonous
antimonite
antimoniuret, antimoniuretted
antimony blende
antimony bloom
antimony glance
antimony hydride
antimonyl
antimony ocher, antimony ochre
antimony oxide
antimony oxysulfide
antimony pentachloride
antimony pentafluoride
antimony pentasulfide, antimony pentasulphide
antimony pentoxide
antimony quintachloride
antimony sesquioxide
antimony sulfide, antimony sulphide
antimony tetroxide
antimony triacetate
antimony tribromide
antimony trichloride
antimony trifluoride
antimony trihydride
antimony triiodide
antimony trioxide
antimony triselenide
antimony tritelluride
antimony vermilion
antimony yellow
arsenical antimony
black antimony
butter of antimony
crocus of antimony
crude antimony
flowers of antimony
germanium antimony telluride
glass of antimony
gray antimony
liver of antimony
pentasulfide antimony, pentasulphide antimony
red antimony
regulus of antimony
saffron of antimony
sulfide of antimony, sulphide of antimony
sulfurated antimony, sulphurated antimony
tartarated antimony
triphenylantimony
white antimony

Related terms

antimonium

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: antimoon (af)
Albanian: antimon (sq) m
Arabic: أَنْتِيمُون‎ m (ʾantimūn), إِثْمِد‎ (ʾiṯmid)
Armenian: ծարիր (hy) (carir)
Asturian: antimoniu (ast) m
Basque: antimonioa
Belarusian: сурма́ f (surmá)
Bulgarian: антимо́н (bg) m (antimón)
Catalan: antimoni (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 銻／锑 (zh) (tī)
Coptic: ⲥⲑⲏⲙ m (sthēm)
Cornish: antymony ?
Czech: antimon (cs) m
Danish: antimon (da) n
Dutch: antimonium (nl) n, antimoon (nl) n, stibium (nl)
Esperanto: antimono (eo)
Estonian: antimon (et)
Faroese: antimon n
Finnish: antimoni (fi)
French: antimoine (fr) m
Friulian: antimoni ?
Galician: antimonio (gl) m
Georgian: სტიბიუმი (sṭibiumi)
German: Antimon (de) n
Greek: αντιμόνιο (el) n (antimónio)
Hebrew: אנטימון‎ (he) m (antimón)
Hindi: अंजन (hi) m (añjan)
Hungarian: antimon (hu)
Icelandic: antímon ?
Indonesian: antimoni
Interlingua: antimonio
Irish: antamón m
Italian: antimonio (it) m
Japanese: アンチモン (ja) (anchimon), アンチモニー (anchimonī)
Kashubian: antimón
Kazakh: сүрме (kk) (sürme)
Khmer: អង់ទីម៉ាន់ (ɑngtiiman)
Korean: 안티몬 (ko) (antimon), 안티모니 (antimoni)
Latin: stibium (la) n
Latvian: antimons m
Lithuanian: stibis (lt) ?
Luxembourgish: Antimon ?
Macedonian: антимон m (antimon)
Malay: antimoni
Maltese: antimonju ?
Manx: antimoan m
Mongolian: будаг (mn) (budag)
Norwegian: antimon n
Occitan: antimòni (oc) m
Persian: انتیموان‎ (antimuân), روی سخته‎ (ruy saxte), سرمه‎ (fa) (sorme), زنگلک‎ (zangolak)
Polish: antymon (pl) m
Portuguese: antimónio (pt) m (Portugal), antimônio (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: antimoniu (ro) n, stibiu (ro) n
Russian: сурьма́ (ru) f (surʹmá), сти́биум m (stíbium)
Scottish Gaelic: antamòn
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀нтимон m
Roman: àntimon (sh) m
Slovak: antimón (sk) m
Slovene: antimon (sl) m
Spanish: antimonio (es) m
Swedish: antimon (sv) n
Tagalog: antimonyo
Tajik: сурьма (sur'ma)
Tamil: அந்திமன் (antimaṉ)
Thai: พลวง (pluuang)
Turkish: antimon (tr)
Ukrainian: сти́бій m (stýbij), сурма́ f (surmá)
Uzbek: sur’ma
Cyrillic: сурьма (uz)
Vietnamese: antimon
Welsh: antimoni (cy) m
West Frisian: antimoon n

stibnite — see stibnite

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Translations to be checked

Breton: ^{(please verify)} antimoan ?, ^{(please verify)} stibiom m

Anagrams

antinomy