antimony

English

Chemical element
Sb
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn'tĭmənē, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/
• enPR: ăn'tĭmōnē, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪˌmoʊ.ni/

Noun

antimony (countable and uncountable, plural antimonies)

1. A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: a lustrous gray metalloid.
2. The alloy stibnite.
   • 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 antimony with antinomy.

Synonyms

• stibium

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
• arsenical antimony
• black antimony
• butter of antimony
• crocus of antimony
• crude antimony
• flowers of antimony
• glass of antimony
• gray 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)
• Arabic: أَنْتِيمُون m (ʾantimūn), إثمد (ʾiṯmid)
• Armenian: ծարիր (hy) (carir)
• Asturian: antimoniu m
• Basque: antimonioa
• Belarusian: сурма́ f (surmá)
• Bulgarian: антимо́н m (antimón)
• Catalan: antimoni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銻／锑 (zh), 锑 (zh) (tī)

• Cornish: antymony
• Czech: antimon (cs) m
• Danish: antimon (da)
• Dutch: antimonium (nl) n, antimoon (nl) n, stibium (nl)
• Esperanto: antimono (eo)
• Estonian: antimon (et)
• Faroese: antimon
• Finnish: antimoni (fi)
• French: antimoine (fr) m
• Friulian: antimoni
• Galician: antimonio (gl)
• Georgian: სტიბიუმი (sṭibiumi)
• German: Antimon (de) n
• Greek: αντιμόνιο (el) n (antimónio)
• Hebrew: אנטימון (he) m (antimón)
• Hindi: अंजन (hi) (añjan)
• Hungarian: antimon (hu)
• Icelandic: antímon
• Interlingua: antimonio
• Interlingue:
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 안티몬 (ko) (antimon), 안티모니 (antimoni)
• Latin: stibium (la)
• Latvian: antimons
• Lithuanian: stibis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Antimon
• Macedonian: антимон m (antimon)
• Malay: antimoni
• Maltese: antimonju
• Manx: antimoan
• Mongolian: будаг (mn) (budag)
• Norwegian: antimon
• Occitan: antimòni (oc) m
• Persian: انتیموان (antimoân), 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)
• 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 (surma)
• Tamil: அந்திமன் (antimaṉ)
• Thai: พลวง (pluuang)
• Turkish: antimon (tr)
• Ukrainian: сурма́ f (surmá)
• Uzbek: sur’ma

  Cyrillic: сурьма (uz)

• Vietnamese: antimon
• Welsh: antimoni (cy)
• West Frisian: antimoon n

stibnite — see stibnite

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Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} antimoan (from Peter Vanderkrogt’s site), ^{(please verify)} stibiom m which is correct?
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• allemonite
• kermesite
• leo ruber
• lupus metallorum
• plumbum nigrum
• proteus
• valentinite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Antimony”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “antimony”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• antinomy