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  • Antimony, which is used in a range of products including certain batteries and sheet metal, is one of several heavy metals that are now regulated under U.S. toy law.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • Antimony, which is used in a range of products including certain batteries and sheet metal, is one of several heavy metals that are now regulated under U.S. toy law.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • Antimony, which is used in a range of products including certain batteries and sheet metal, is one of several heavy metals that are now regulated under U.S. toy law.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • There is likewise found great Variety of Earths for Physick, Cleansing, Scouring, and making all Sorts of Potters-Ware; such as Antimony, Talk, yellow and red Oker, Fullers-Earth, Pipe-Clay,

    The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722

  • The twentieth-century Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia captured this sentiment in his 1958 short story “Antimony,” in which a young illiterate Italian miner naively volunteers for the forces that Mussolini sends to aid the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The twentieth-century Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia captured this sentiment in his 1958 short story “Antimony,” in which a young illiterate Italian miner naively volunteers for the forces that Mussolini sends to aid the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Gunnerkigg Court is one of those oddly mysterious boarding schools surrounded by a magical wood, you see, and a new student, Antimony, has just begun attending.

    Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 1: Orientation » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • Antimony is used as a catalyst in the production of polyester, so it's not surprising to find it in a plastic toy.

    Zhu Zhu Pets May Contain Poisonous Substance: Should You Care? - The Consumerist 2009

  • Antimony rarely occurs in its native metallic form in nature.

    Antimony 2008

  • Antimony is also used for pigments in plastics, paints, rubber, and for a wide variety of minor uses, including medicines, fireworks, and others.

    Antimony 2008

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