Antimony salts are mostly fairly insoluble, BUT if you had antimony on your skin and had some types of bacteria (acid-producers) as well, or something which produced locally reducing conditions (Zn impurities in the Sb?) you might get some stibene. Sitting in a hot room with a bunch of people whose eye makeup was generating stibene would certainly shorten your life-span. But this probably would have happened after you had killed quite a few workers making Sb from oxide ores by reducing processes in the presence of sources of H (like wood). Stibene is really bad news.
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I have something in my mind I can't quite concreticise about ancient
Egyptian women suffering from the effects of applying antimony (or some
compound?) liberally to beautify their eyes. Any use? David Liversage.
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