# antimony
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈæn.tɪ.mə.niː/, enPR: ăn'tĭmənē
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /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: in its stable allotrope, a lustrous gray and very brittle metal.
    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: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

* Not to be confused with antinomy (“a contradiction or paradox”).

#### Derived terms

* antimonate
* antimonene
* antimonial
* antimonian
* antimoniate
* antimoniated
* antimonic
* antimonide
* antimoniferous
* antimonioso-
* antimonious, antimonous
* antimonite
* antimoniuret, antimoniuretted
* antimonoan
* 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 white
* antimony yellow
* arsenical antimony
* black antimony
* butter of antimony
* crocus of antimony
* crude antimony
* diantimony
* explosive antimony
* flowers of antimony
* germanium antimony telluride
* glass of antimony
* gray antimony
* liver of antimony
* organoantimony
* pentasulfide antimony, pentasulphide antimony
* radioantimony
* red antimony
* regulus of antimony
* saffron of antimony
* sulfide of antimony, sulphide of antimony
* sulfurated antimony, sulphurated antimony
* tartarated antimony
* tellurantimony
* tetrantimony
* triantimony
* triphenylantimony
* white antimony
* yellow antimony

#### Related terms

* antimonium

#### Translations

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### See also

* ♁ (alchemical symbol)
* allemonite
* kermesite
* leo ruber
* lupus metallorum
* plumbum nigrum
* proteus
* valentinite

### Further reading

* antimony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Antimony”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
* “antimony”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

### Anagrams

* antinomy