Antimony

Antimony is the chemical element Sb, atomic number 51, a lustrous grey metal or metalloid. In nature it is found mainly in the sulphide mineral stibnite, and its compounds have been known since ancient times, powdered for medicine and for cosmetics often called by the Arabic name kohl. China once struck coins of it, in Guizhou in 1931, but the issue was soon stopped because the metal proved too soft and too toxic. Cunningham describes it as a white metal and gives it to the Sun and fire, calling it projective. His entry for it is brief and concerned with a single power, protection. He suggests wearing a small piece of antimony to ward off negative vibrations, carrying or wearing it simply to be protected, and adding small bits of it to combinations of protective stones to strengthen what they already do. His entry gives no older lore of the metal and names no deity, herb or stone for it.