单词 | butter of antimony |
释义 | > as lemmasbutter of antimony butter of antimony, an old name of the trichloride, ‘a translucent fatty mass’; crocus of antimony, an impure sulphide of antimony and sodium, formed as a scoria in smelting antimony; flowers of antimony, crystals of the trioxide formed when the metal is sublimed; glass of antimony, an oxy-sulphide fused; saffron of antimony = red antimony n. at sense 2.extracted from antimonyn.butter of antimony b. Chiefly Chemistry. With of and following word. Denoting a chloride of the metal or substance specified, as butter of antimony, butter of arsenic, butter of bismuth, butter of tin, butter of zinc, etc. Now chiefly historical.Used to describe anhydrous chlorides that are soft or oily in texture, with the metal typically in its lowest oxidation state (as antimony( iii) chloride, zinc( ii) chloride, etc.). ΚΠ 1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 71 Oil or Butter of Antimony. 1674 M. Lister Let. 7 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1975) X. 427 I take it to be yt wch van Helmont calls ye Gur or Bur ye butter of Minerals; 'tis in tast sweetish, only it has a vitriolick & iron like twang wth it. 1708 tr. J. P. de Tournefort Materia Medica iv. i. 180 If you pour fair Water upon the Butter of Antimony, you will obtain a very fine white Powder..call'd the Powder of Algaroth. 1785 T. Beddoes tr. T. Bergman Diss. Elective Attractions xx. 124 That which is collected in the receiver, consists of butter of arsenic, and marine acid unmixed. 1802 R. Chenevix in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 164 The muriatic salts, formerly known by the strange name of butters of the metals. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 407 The only known compound, bismuth and chlorine..called butter of bismuth. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliv. 872 Crude zinc chlorine which distils solidifies in the receiver to a soft waxy mass known as butter of zinc. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xxxviii. 331 On adding water, a semi-solid mass is obtained, which contains one or more hydrates of the chloride, e.g. SnCl4.5H2O. This is known as ‘butter of tin’. 1994 Times (Nexis) 24 Nov. In the past, antimony was prescribed as tartar emetic (antimony potassium tartrate) or in veterinary work as butter of antimony. 2002 W. R. Newman & L. M. Principe Alchemy tried in Fire iii. 104 Corrosive sublimate and antimony (mercuric chloride and antimony trisulphide) were heated together, first providing a distillate of butter of antimony (antimony trichloride). < as lemmas |
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