How to Use antimony in a Sentence

antimony

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The shot contains 8 percent antimony, making these the hardest lead-shot pellets on the market.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2020
• Among the traces of metals found were antimony, arsenic, barium, copper, iron and lead.
  — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 29 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• There was a giant crystal of antimony sulfide, stibnite, from Japan.
  — Oliver Sacks, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• But antimony is quite rare, leading Shortland’s team to wonder where ancient glassmakers got it from.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
• 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 pipe was composed largely of lead, but contained enough antimony to potentially sicken those drinking from it.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2017
• 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
• With antimony, however, nearly half the electrons passed right across the barrier.
  — Andrew Grant, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2010
• 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
• So, why is a secure and plentiful supply of antimony important to Ambri?
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Stibnite has been periodically mined since the 1800s for gold and antimony, a metal used in batteries and flame retardant.
  — Rocky Barker, idahostatesman, 9 May 2018
• 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
• Lithium mines use a lot of water—many thousands of gallons per minute, according to The New York Times—and groundwater contamination with antimony and arsenic are a real and persistent threat.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2023
• According to an account given by the seventeenth-century apothecary and alchemist Pierre Pomet (offered up by Wothers as possibly apocryphal), antimony got its name from the story of a German monk who fed it to his fellow-brethren.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• The researchers analyzed the ice cores for different trace elements — such as lead, antimony, arsenic, bismuth and molybdenum — that may have been floating around the atmosphere during different points in time.
  — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
• As the lakebed becomes exposed, toxic dust mixed with metals and metalloids like antimony, copper, zirconium and arsenic become a problem, per Live Science.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
• In 2016 scientists found high antimony levels in bottled water sold in Mexico.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• Antimony today is mostly obtained from the mining of stibnite, an alloy made up of antimony and Sulphur, and the vast majority of stibnite mining currently takes place in China.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• The process for obtaining antimony, a rare earth mineral used in the production of solar panels, wind and hydro turbines, semi-conductors and batteries, is equally, if not more impactful.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• The soil contains arsenic, antimony, copper, zirconium and other dangerous heavy metals, much of it residue from mining activity in the region.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Perpetua says its Idaho mine holds enough antimony to one day power a million homes using hulking batteries that would capture and release energy created by solar farms.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Preliminary post-mortem exams showed damaged bone marrow and unexplained high levels of cadmium, antimony, chromium and other metals in her blood.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The United States is dependent on China for a variety of essential materials, including the antimony used in night-vision goggles and nuclear weapons.
  — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• Without any help from us, remember, our planet is home to an astonishing variety of dangerous substances – arsenic and antimony, cadmium, lead, mercury, and more.
  — Deborah Blum, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2014

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024