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Metal Exposure and Toxic Responses
Published in Stephen K. Hall, Joana Chakraborty, Randall J. Ruch, Chemical Exposure and Toxic Responses, 2020
The most toxic antimony compounds are stibine (SbH3), the tri- and pentachloride, and the tri- and pentafluoride. Stibine is a powerful hemolytic poison. One of the earliest signs of overexposure is hemoglobinuria. Fatalities caused by antimony pentachloride have been reported. After oral ingestion of toxic antimonial compounds, irrigating of the stomach, administration of 2,3-dimercaptopropanol, and a liver-protecting therapy are recommended.
Toxicology
Published in Martin B., S.Z., of Industrial Hygiene, 2018
The most toxic antimony compounds are stibine (SbH3), the tri- and pentachlorides, and the tri- and pentafluorides. Stibine is a powerful hemolytic poison. One of the earliest signs of overexposure is hemoglobinuria. Fatalities caused by antimony pentachloride have been reported. After oral ingestion of toxic antimonial compounds, irrigating of the stomach, administration of 2,3-dimercaptopropanol, and a liver-protecting therapy are recommended.
List of Chemical Substances
Published in T.S.S. Dikshith, and Safety, 2016
Antimony trioxide is incompatible with bromine trifluoride, strong acids, strong bases, reducing agents, perchloric acid, and chlorinated rubber. The release of the deadly gas, stibine, and its inhalation cause adverse effects on the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular systems. Workers must wear impervious protective clothing, including boots, gloves, laboratory coat, apron or coveralls, as appropriate, to prevent skin contact.
An Alchemist in Greenland: Hans Egede (1686–1758) and Alchemical Practice in the Colony of Hope
Published in Ambix, 2020
What had really happened? The poisonous gas emitted from the vial has on the basis of the events and symptoms described by Egede been identified by Kjell Furuset as stibine, or antimony trihydride (SbH3), which develops when antimony comes into contact with acid.20 The process that had taken place was the reduction of stibnite (antimontrisulphite, Sb2S3) to antimony by means of iron and copper.21 Stibnite is the substance in which antimony is often found in nature, and alchemists used the term “antimony” in referring to both. As is also indicated by Egede’s allegorical account of his experiment, where an impure maiden is purified in order to make her capable of marrying a prince, his purpose in purifying the stibnite was to render it able to compound with gold. To the purified antimony Egede had added a small amount of gold and left it to “digest” over temperate heat.