A mineral compound or ore containing antimony, or a rock formation rich in antimony deposits.
From antimony + -ite (suffix for minerals and stones), indicating that this is either a mineral containing antimony or a compound with an antimony-related structure. This term is primarily geological/mineralogical.
The -ite suffix is how geologists name minerals—stibnite, magnetite, hematite, antimonite. Each name encodes both what the mineral contains and often what the crystal structure looks like, creating a hidden taxonomy in rock names.
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