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To: TobagoJack who wrote (101597)6/25/2013 11:28:10 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 219466
 
Any thoughts yet on developing your antimony resource? The Disappearing Spoon has some interesting trivia...

- Nebuchadnezzar, who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, used a noxious antimony-lead mix to paint his palace walls yellow. It soon drove him mad.

- Egyptian women used antimony-based mascara, as a way to cast the evil eye on their enemies.

- Mozart probably died from antimony poisoning in his fever medication.

- Much of our knowledge of alchemy and antimony comes from a 1604 book, The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony.

- A province in China once used poisonous coins made from an alloy of lead and antimony...
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- Mixing antimony pentafluoride (SbF5) with hydrofluoric acid (HF) produces a substance with a pH of -31. This superacid is 100,000 billion billion billion times more potent than stomach acid! It will eat through glass, so it must be stored in special Teflon-lined containers.
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