antimony trioxide

noun

: a white crystalline compound Sb₂O₃ or Sb₄O₆ occurring native as valentinite and senarmontite, formed when antimony burns, and used chiefly as a source of other antimony compounds and as a pigment especially in fire-retardant paints

called also antimonious oxide

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