Term: antimony (Sb)
Literally meaning:
“not
alone, against aloneness”
Origin: Anc Greek
αντί-/anti- (=prefix meaning
opposed to, against, instead)
μόνος/monos (=alone)
Coined/History
Plini the Elder referred to male had female forms of antimony possibly meaning sulfide and metallic antimony respectively. In ancient times antimony was used in cosmetics for
making black paint for eye brows.
The symbol stibium derived
from Greek word “στίμμι” and the abbreviation was used for first time by
Jons Jacob Berzelius. This substance was referred to antimony
sulphide (Sb2S3) which was known as “στίμμιs/timmi” or / “στίβι/stivi” as it is described by Greek botanist and
physician Dioskorides (circa 40-90 AD) (Materis
medica 5, 99) and Roman Pliny the Elder (23-79) (Naturalis historia 33, 34).
In 1604
Basilius Valentinus (1565-1624) wrote the monograph “Triumph-Wagen des
Antimonij” . The word “antimony” is derived from medieval latin form “antimonium”.
The most popular etymology is based on
the assessment that this metalloid is not found unalloyed (not alone).
Definition
Antimony is a toxic chemical element with atomic mass
and an atomic number of 51. It is a lustrous
grey metalloid (resembles to metal), which is used mainly for
paint and batteries production.
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