Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native oxid of antimony of a white to yellow color, occurring in acicular crystallizations or massive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) See under
antimony .
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- noun mineralogy An orthorhombic-pyramidal
mineral containingantimony andoxygen .
Etymologies
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Antimony oxides, including senarmontite, cervantite, and others, are formed near the surface, and in some of the deposits of Mexico and Algeria they supply a large part of the values recovered.
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