stibium

Its chemical symbol, Sb, is derived from the Latin word stibium, which was the name of the most common antimony mineral, stibnite.

Antimony 2008

-- The word stibium signifies the antimony, from whence, by the philosophical fire, is taken an alkali which we empty in our grand work.

The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

From the Gr. or is the Lat. stibium; while the Low

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Qui melancholicus factus plane desipiebat, multaque stulte loquebaturr, huic exhibitum 12.gr. stibium, quod paulo post atram bilem ex alvo eduxit (ut ego vidi, qui vocatus tanquam ad miraculum adfui testari possum,) et ramenta tunquam carnis dissecta in partes totum excrementum tanquam sanguinem nigerrimum repraesentabat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Antimony or stibium, which our chemists so much magnify, is either taken in substance or infusion, &c., and frequently prescribed in this disease.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

I will compound a medicine, out of their two heads, stronger than garlic, deadlier than stibium: the cantharides, which are scarce seen to stick upon the flesh, when they work to the heart, shall not do it with more silence or invisible cunning.

The White Devil 2007

I will compound a medicine, out of their two heads, stronger than garlic, deadlier than stibium: the cantharides, which are scarce seen to stick upon the flesh, when they work to the heart, shall not do it with more silence or invisible cunning.

The White Devil 2007

El – Kohl (stibium, collyrium, antimony) being found about

The Land of Midian 2003

Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998