How to Use antimony in a Sentence

antimony

noun
  • The export controls continued with antimony the latest to be added to the list.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Among the traces of metals found were antimony, arsenic, barium, copper, iron and lead.
    — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 29 June 2017
  • This pigment was rediscovered in the form of Naples yellow, an oxide of lead and antimony found in the mines.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • An increase of antimony, cobalt, and lead in the ocean is helping to skew sea turtle populations female.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There was a giant crystal of antimony sulfide, stibnite, from Japan.
    — Oliver Sacks, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Bryant took her daughter to a practitioner who told her the girl’s blood was full of heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, antimony and mercury.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2017
  • But China’s moves meant the company is studying ways to produce antimony faster.
    — Reuters, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The shot contains 8 percent antimony, making these the hardest lead-shot pellets on the market.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2020
  • But antimony is quite rare, leading Shortland’s team to wonder where ancient glassmakers got it from.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Babcock has the chemical symbols for lead, tin, and antimony — the three elements used in hot type — tattooed near his left shoulder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The pipe was composed largely of lead, but contained enough antimony to potentially sicken those drinking from it.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2017
  • With antimony, however, nearly half the electrons passed right across the barrier.
    — Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2010
  • Their key innovation lies in fine-tuning the structure of a compound made from lithium, iron, antimony, and oxygen.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • However, the glass that is used in solar panels often contains antimony, a toxic heavy metal.
    — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
  • It's not known how effective pure water would have been at leaching antimony from the pipes, although the concentration was high enough to raise concern.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Beyond tandem solar panels, antimony chalcogenide opens the door to a range of new applications.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
  • So, why is a secure and plentiful supply of antimony important to Ambri?
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The site has estimated reserves of 148 million pounds of antimony and 6 million ounces of gold.
    — Ernest Scheyder, Reuters, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There are microbes that can breathe palladium and copper and nickel and antimony and vanadium and selenium and all these things.
    — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Apart from galena, Egyptians used the metallic element antimony and the mineral malachite in their kohl.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The greater the average amount of the heavy metals antimony and cadmium in the hatchlings’ liver, the greater the bias towards females within the nest, the researchers said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • By adding lead, antimony, copper, manganese and other natural elements, pieces could be made to replicate lapis lazuli, carnelian, alabaster and turquoise.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Researchers turned to an atom of antimony, a relatively heavy element, to create error-tolerant qubits.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The three minerals included in the latest ban are the metals gallium and germanium, as well as the metalloid antimony.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Kohl made with antimony has traditionally been considered to improve vision.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The company has mineral rights to an antimony mine in Nova Scotia that has been abandoned since the 1960s.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Turtles from the 11 female-heavy clutches had higher amounts of antimony, cadmium, lead and cobalt in their systems, while those from the male-skewed clutches had lower levels of these metals.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The choices are destined to grow more challenging as commodities like lithium, copper, cobalt and antimony become more valuable, and critical to the nation’s future.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • If that happens, the bulk of the 148 million pounds of antimony at the site would be prioritized during the initial years of operations, the company said.
    — Kevin Fixler september 20, Idaho Statesman, 20 Sep. 2025
  • However, superacids—as their name suggests—are even stronger than the strongest Lewis acid, which is antimony pentafluoride (SbF5).
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023

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