noun
- a brittle silvery-white metallic chemical element used especially in alloys and flame-retardant compounds
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Antimony is used to make batteries and semiconductors.
- The ancient Egyptians used antimony compounds as eye makeup.
- Lead-antimony alloys are commonly used in car batteries.
- Antimony trioxide serves as a flame retardant in plastics.
- The element antimony has the chemical symbol Sb.
- Mining operations extract antimony from stibnite ore.