Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony
Earth Magazine
By: David E. Guberman
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Abstract
Antimony is a lustrous silvery-white semimetal or metalloid. Archaeological and historical studies indicate that antimony and its mineral sulfides have been used by humans for at least six millennia. The alchemist Basil Valentine is sometimes credited with “discovering” the element; he described the extraction of metallic antimony from stibnite in his treatise “The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony,” published sometime between 1350 and 1600. In the early 18th century, Jöns Jakob Berzelius chose the periodic symbol for antimony (Sb) based on stibium, which is the Latin name for stibnite.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Mineral Resource of the Month: Antimony |
| Series title | Earth Magazine |
| Volume | February 2015 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | AGI |
| Contributing office(s) | National Minerals Information Center |
| Description | HTML Document |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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