-antimony-#51

*atomic #51*

AN teh monee

*ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS* —>

[the ancient words for ‘antimony’ mostly have, as their chief meaning, ‘kohl’, the sulfide of ‘antimony’]

(the ‘egyptians’ called antimony mśdmt; in hieroglyphs, the vowels are uncertain, but there is an ‘arabic tradition’ that the word is ميسديميت mesdemet)

(the Greek word, στίμμι stimmi, is probably a loan word from Arabic or Egyptian sdm and is used by Attic tragic poets of the 5th century BC; later Greeks also used στἰβι stibi, as did Celsus and Pliny, writing in Latin, in the first century AD)

(‘pliny’ also gives the names stimi, larbaris, alabaster, and the “very common” platyophthalmos, “wide-eye” (from the effect of the cosmetic))

(later latin authors adapted the word to ‘latin’ as stibium)

(the arabic word for the substance, as opposed to the cosmetic, can appear as إثمد ithmid, athmoud, othmod, or uthmod)

(‘littré’ suggests the first form, which is the earliest, derives from stimmida, an accusative for stimmi)

(the use of ‘Sb’ as the standard chemical symbol for antimony is due to ‘Jöns Jakob Berzelius’, who used this abbreviation of the name stibium)

(the ‘medieval latin’ form, from which the modern languages and late ‘byzantine greek’ take their names for antimony, is antimonium)

(the origin of this is uncertain; all suggestions have some difficulty either of form or interpretation)

(the popular etymology, from ἀντίμοναχόςanti-monachos or french antimoine, still has adherents; this would mean “monk-killer”, and is explained by many early alchemists being monks, and ‘antimony’ being ‘poisonous’)

(another popular etymology is the hypothetical greek word ἀντίμόνος antimonos, “against aloneness”, explained as “not found as metal”, or “not found unalloyed”)

(‘lippmann’ conjectured a hypothetical greek word ανθήμόνιον anthemonion, which would mean “floret”, and cites several examples of related greek words (but not that one) which describe chemical or biological ‘efflorescence’)

(the early uses of antimonium include the translations, in 1050–1100, by ‘constantine the african’ of arabic medical treatises)

(several authorities believe antimonium is a ‘scribal corruption’ of some ‘arabic form’…)

(‘meyerhof’ derives it from ithmid)

(‘otto frit meyerhof’ was a german-jewish ‘physician/bio-chemist’)
(1884 – 1951)

(won ‘1922 nobel prize’)
(in ‘physiology’ / ‘medicine’)

(discovered relationship between the consumption of ‘oxygen’ + the ‘metabolism’ of ‘lactic acid’ in the ‘muscle’)

(other possibilities include…)

athimar
(the arabic name of the metalloid)

(hypothetical as-stimmi)
(derived from (or parallel to) the ‘greek’ word)

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