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antimony pentoxide

rocketman - 20-5-2015 at 16:55

Desperate for antimony pentoxide. Not available on ebay. Available from various Chinese companies. Anyone know how these transactions work? They ask for name of my company. I don't have a company.

blogfast25 - 20-5-2015 at 17:01

Quote: Originally posted by rocketman  
Desperate for antimony pentoxide. Not available on ebay. Available from various Chinese companies. Anyone know how these transactions work? They ask for name of my company. I don't have a company.


What do you need it for? Make your own (for small quantities)?

j_sum1 - 20-5-2015 at 19:05

http://onyxmet.com/elements-antimony?product_id=137
Polish zlottis convert well to most currencies. This looks pretty cheap to me.

edit:
great company. I have had several very good transactions. Others on SM have also had a good experience.

[Edited on 21-5-2015 by j_sum1]

Polish company

rocketman - 20-5-2015 at 19:31

Thanks j_sum1 . Have sent them an email. Not sure if they send to Canada since USA, Europe etc listed but not Canada. Wish me luck. :)

woelen - 20-5-2015 at 22:59

I purchased Sb2O5 from Onymet. Perfect service. Keep in mind though that Sb2O5 is amazingly inert. I am quite disappointed, not by Onyxmet, but by the strong inertness of this chemical. I could not manage to have it reacted in strong alkali, nor in strong acid. Not even boiling solutions are capable of dissolving the material.

blogfast25 - 21-5-2015 at 06:29

Quote: Originally posted by woelen  
Keep in mind though that Sb2O5 is amazingly inert. I am quite disappointed, not by Onyxmet, but by the strong inertness of this chemical. I could not manage to have it reacted in strong alkali, nor in strong acid.


I got mine from a pottery outlet, presumably intended as pigment/opacifier for glazes.

I haven't actually done anything with it yet. But I will try and fuse it with an excess of ('pure') KOH. One day...

Fulmen - 21-5-2015 at 08:42

My bad, I was thinking of Sb2S5

[Edited on 22-5-15 by Fulmen]