The mineral that is used the most to isolate Antimony is called stibnite, also known as antimonite. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Artists used finely-ground stibnite in the Middle Ages as a black pigment. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
Because it is so soft, stibnite was used in ancient times as black eye makeup. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
Antimony minerals, particularly stibnite, have been known and used since ancient times. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
Numerous stibnite deposits occur in Idaho, Montana and Nevada, but most are worked out. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
This method for small quantities of stibnite is both quick and accurate, the error being about. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
Of these minerals, only stibnite (SbS3) is mined commercially as a source for metallic antimony. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
When prepared in this way they are orange-colored substances, though the mineral stibnite is black. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Its chemical symbol, Sb, is derived from the Latin word stibium, which was the name of the most common antimony mineral, stibnite. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
It rarely occurs in nature as a native element, but is found in a number of different minerals, the most important of which is stibnite (SbS3). From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
The ancients may have occasionally produced pure antimony from its ore stibnite, and medieval alchemists have left recipes for preparation of the pure metal. From Wordnik.com. [Antimony] Reference
Nearly full, bright as stibnite crystals and almost as hard of aspect, it allowed them to stride forth with some idea not only of where they were going, but also of what lay in their immediate path. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
stibnite or stibnite casts can be found in the silica. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Antimony is frequently found from the ores stibnite and valentinite. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The antimony sulphide, stibnite, is the source of most of the world's production of this metal. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
The next most abundant mineral is pyrite, followed by minor stibnite and a trace of sphalerite. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Mephistophelian and cloudlike devolvement of coatroom europeanization way to the stibnite and desensitisation of the droplet. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Mine workers are often exposed directly to stibnite ore (antimony sulfide) and to airborne antimony via inhalation and skin exposure. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
In the weathering of antimony deposits, the stibnite usually alters to form insoluble white or yellowish oxides, which are sometimes called. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
In the Central Plateau of France the numerous antimony deposits are stibnite veins cutting granites and the surrounding schists and sediments. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
Gold-bearing, quartz-carbonate veins were intersected in both drill holes that are oblique to the main, northeast-striking, quartz-stibnite-gold vein-faults. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
The deposits of the Hunan Province of southern China occur as seams, pockets, and bunches of stibnite ore in gently undulating beds of faulted and fissured dolomitic limestone. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
The current Arabic name for alcohol is ان كحول al-kuḥūl, re-introduced from western usage, while the Classical Arabic word is ان غول al-ġawl (e.g. sura 37: 47), literally \ "spirit\" (the word al-ġawl is also the origin of the English word \ "ghoul\", and the name of the star Algol). kuḥl was the name given to the very fine powder, produced by the sublimation of the natural mineral stibnite to form antimony sulfide Sb2S3 (hence the essence or \ "spirit\" of the substance), which was used as an antiseptic and eyeliner. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
0.734 ounces/ton gold and 57.0 percent antimony were encountered in 2009 Workman's Bench stibnite-gold-quartz intercepts. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
2) Testing of A Zone in drill hole 09SH05 encountered massive stibnite 2.20 feet wide, the thickest stibnite intersection encountered during three years of drilling. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
A significant arsenic-bismuth-lead-zinc-nickel-stibnite geochemical signature occurs with the mineralization. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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