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countable and uncountable, plural antimonies
A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: a lustrous gray and very brittle metalloid. quotations examples
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.
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
The alloy stibnite. quotations examples
In quality synergistic additives in a composition use oxide antimonies.
2005, Al Berlin, Chemical Physics of Pyrolysis, Combustion, and Oxidation, page 21