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I have two photographs of each sample from the set: One taken by me and one from the company. To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description or the company's website which includes many photographs and pricing details. Max Whitby, the director of the company, very kindly donated a complete set to the periodic table table. The Red Green and Blue company in England sells a very nice element collection in several versions. I suspect that my other "antimony" objects are made of similar sorts of alloys with varying amounts of antimony depending on what mine was close to the factory that made them. Why some company decided to name this one after its antimony content I'm not sure: Maybe they just really didn't want to call it lead. They have names like "German silver", "Pewter", etc. There are a whole lot of different alloys containing various mixtures of tin, antimony, lead, silver, and copper.

So, there really is a good bit of antimony, but it's not the major component of the alloy. The silver part is probably either from incomplete scraping of what is obviously silver plate (based on how it tarnishes), or the machine is seeing some of the back side of the sample: I doubt very much that they would have wasted silver in the base metal. The result is a complex alloy with the following components: Department of Energy under grant DEFG02-91-ER45439). One of the goblets has a piece broken off its lip, so I scraped the plating off one side and analyzed the base metal by x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy at the Center for Microanalysis of Materials, University of Illinois (partially supported by the U.S. Reader Paul Roberts suggests that maybe "E.P." stands for Electro Plated, which seems like a good guess. ANTIMONY" and "JAPAN" on the bottom, so the seller was certainly justified in selling them as "Antimony Goblets".

See the antimony goblets below for information about what the alloy is actually likely to be. Somehow it just seems that way in this case. I guess including the element name on the packaging is no stranger than calling old metal toys "tin toys" or "cast iron banks". I'm using this one for donations to support the apple bowl outside my office. Yet another item claimed to be made of antimony. But then reader Wendy Hart kindly pointed out that it's actually a dog, not a lion. I used to have this labeled as a "foo lion" incense burner because that's what the eBay seller described it as. No verification, but no reason to doubt it either. See the antimony goblets below for information about what the alloy is actually likely to be.Īnother item claimed to be made of antimony. So it's perhaps not too far fetched that someone would make a pin like this out of plain antimony, though the only evidence for this is the unsubstantiated claim of the eBay seller. Making drinking goblets out of antimony is a bad idea: It's somewhat toxic and can leach out when acidic wine or juice is served.Īntimony is a major component of pewter, which is popular for making this sort of item out of. Somewhat to my surprise, some items are actually marketed as being made of antimony, in much the same way that "tin toys" and "cast iron banks" are. It's a component of many variations of pewter, "German silver", and similar casting alloys used to make semi-nice objects out of. My periodic table poster is now available!Īntimony is a lot like tin, and is used in much the same way. Facts, pictures, stories about the element Antimony in the Periodic Table