- Antimonate
The antimonate
ion is Sb(OH)6−, where Sb isantimony and (OH) is thehydroxyl group.An antimonate (compound) refers to a compound that contains the antimonate ion.
See for a list. Antimonate ions occur in some minerals ("see ").
In acid conditions this forms
antimony pentoxide , Sb2O5; in other conditions we have the antimonate ion, Sb(OH)6−.Like its horizontal neighbor in the
periodic table ,tellurium , and unlike other elements in the same group, antimony is commonlyhexacoordinate , for example in the unit Sb(OH)6−;tetracoordinate units are not common.
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