April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

Antimony’s the metalloid to purge the gut, and how!
That glint in Cleopatra’s eye, its sulfide did endow.
Its oxide works to retard flame,
Did tartrate cut short Mozart’s fame?
Help’d newshounds print their hard-edg’d facts; in match heads . . . take a bow!
GROUP 15 METALLOID
Antimony sits in the periodic table’s metalloid buffer zone, which is located between the vast expanse of metals to the left and the smaller clique of non-metals to the right. Antimony is quite toxic for an element, but its toxicity was exploited during the Middle Ages to treat constipation. ...