stibium

Definitions

Examples

• Keren-Happuk, the name given by Job to one of his daughters, means "horn of stibium."

• We use cements when, without stibium, we part silver or copper or both so ingeniously and admirably from gold.

• There are besides this, certain other cements which part gold from silver, composed of sulphur, stibium and other ingredients.

• The sixth method consists in heating together a bes of the copper and one-sixth of a libra each of sulphur, salt, and stibium.

• Some of the alabasti would contain kohl or stibium, some salves and ointments, others perhaps perfumed washes for the complexion.