Antimony

Formula: Sb

Reflected/transmitted colour: opaque, polished section white

Pleochroism: polished section very feeble

Optical isotropy/anisotropy: polished section distinct anisotropic, yellowish gray, brownish, bluish gray, sometimes only slight variations

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Birefringence δ/bireflectance: polished section weak, weaker than for bismuth and arsenic, about as for dyscrasite

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