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Antimony Sb
A brittle, silvery semi-metal traded chiefly as the metal and as antimony trioxide. Its role in industry is functional rather than structural: it hardens lead, and as the trioxide it is the standard synergist that makes halogenated flame retardants work.
- Application
- Flame-retardant synergist, lead-acid battery alloys, bearing alloys, catalysts, glass fining.
- Conditions
- Ingot, trioxide (Sb₂O₃) powder, master alloys, salts.
- Industries
- Flame RetardantLead Battery
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