element

Antimony

Elements · Colors & materials

A metalloid of kohl, type-metal, and alchemy. Not arsenic, and not lead.

  • Antimony is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats stibium/antimony among eye-paints and mineral drugs. A Roman-era pharmacological use filed on the antimony id, not a second stibium entity flatten and not lead.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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