The CPSC did these calculations because antimony is also used in fire retardants in mattresses.
Antimony Trioxide: Used in paint pigment, plastics, adhesives, textiles, furniture, draperies, wall coverings and carpets.
The most basic version of the battery used magnesium for the top layer and antimony for the bottom layer.
Greenpeace wants to see companies eliminate the use of hazardous substances such as polyvinyl chloride, brominated flame retardants, antimony, beryllium, and phthalates.
Antimony prices more more than doubled after Chinese officials launched one of their periodic purges of mine managers who were illegally producing and exporting the metal.
Antimony bulls are betting that industrial customers, sick of Chinese manipulation of rare-earth and antimony markets, will pay more for a non-Chinese supply even if prices fall.
Of course, if the Chinese slip into their old habits and let thousands of small-scale smelters spring up again, the market could be flooded with antimony and non-Chinese producers driven out.
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.
Last year, researchers from the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Department said in New Scientist magazine that it was regular doses of antimony potassium tartrate, or tartar emetic a poisonous colourless salt which was used to make him vomit, that killed him.
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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