The CPSC did these calculations because antimony is also used in fire retardants in mattresses.

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Antimony Trioxide: Used in paint pigment, plastics, adhesives, textiles, furniture, draperies, wall coverings and carpets.

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The most basic version of the battery used magnesium for the top layer and antimony for the bottom layer.

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Greenpeace wants to see companies eliminate the use of hazardous substances such as polyvinyl chloride, brominated flame retardants, antimony, beryllium, and phthalates.

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This incorporates a safety factor of 1, 000 on the lowest observed adverse effect level of antinomy in animals--in other words, the first statistically significant health problem in animals came from inhaling antimony at a level of 9000 micrograms per meter cubed.

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Peak neodymium is the latest threat to green energy, while doubt emerges over the security of many other element groups including the rare earths, the platinum group metals, and elements such as antimony, beryllium, gallium, germanium, graphite, indium, magnesium, niobium, tantalum and tungsten.

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