Hospice care is multidisciplinary and includes home visits, professional health care available on call, teaching and emotional support of the family, and physical care of the client. Some hospice programs provide care in a center, as well as in the home or in a nursing home. Hospice also offers bereavement counseling for the family. See also emotional care of the dying patient, stages of dying.
a brittle, lustrous, white metallic element occurring in nature free or combined, used chiefly in alloys and in compounds in medicine. Symbol: Sb; atomic number: 51; atomic weight: 121.75. Origin of antimony Expand.
Chemical Background and Properties of Antimony. Antimony is a chemical element that is recognized by its distinctive atomic symbol of Sb. This atomic symbol is derived from the Latin name for antimony, stibium. The atomic number of antimony is 51 and its atomic weight of 121.8g/mol. Classified as a metalloid, you can spot antimony on the periodic table next to metalloid neighbors arsenic (As) and tellurium (Te). A metalloid is a chemical element that has a mixture of properties between a metal and nonmetal.