Antimony
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Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it occurs in nature mainly in the form of the sulfide mineral stibnite. Antimony compounds h
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Native antimony with oxidation products
Stibnite, China CM29287 Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen on display in Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems
The Italian metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio described a procedure to isolate antimony in 1540.
Pewter
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Pewter is a malleable metal alloy consisting of tin, antimony, copper, bismuth, and sometimes silver. In the past, it was an alloy of tin and as much as 40% lead, but most modern pewter, in order to p
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…bullets and lead shot, electrical cable sheathing, type metal (for example, for Linotype machines), solder (some "lead-free" solders contain 5% Sb), in pewter, and in hardening alloys with low tin content in the manufacturing of organ pipes. Three other applications consume nearly all the rest of the world's…
Detail on a pewter fork handle from Norway, showing three scenes: King Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), his men, and a Viking ship
Pewter ring
Pewter plate
Pewter vase