antimony : Idioms & Phrases

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antimony potassium tartrate

  • noun a poisonous colorless salt used as a mordant and in medicine
    tartar emetic.
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Black antimony

  • (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
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Glass of antimony

  • a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide.
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Gray antimony

  • (Min.), stibnite.
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Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur

  • . (Old Chem.) See Hepar.
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of antimony

  • (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder.
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Red antimony

  • (Min.), kermesite. See Kermes mineral (b), under Kermes.
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Tartarized antimony

  • (Med. Chem.), tartar emetic.
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