Period 5 element corrosion-resistant tin plating of steel. Because of its low toxicity, tin-plated metal is also used for food packaging, giving the name to tin cans, which are made mostly of steel. Antimony () is a toxic chemical element with the symbol Sb and an atomic number of 51. A lustrous grey metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (SbS). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were used for cosmetics, metallic antimony was also known but mostly identified as lead. For some time China has been the largest producer of antimony and its compounds,
Systematic element name for 4). There are two elision rules designed to prevent odd-looking names. The suffix "-ium" overrides traditional chemical suffix rules; thus elements 117 and 118 were "ununseptium" and "ununoctium", not "ununseptine" and "ununocton". This does not apply to the final trivial names these elements receive once confirmed; thus element 117 and 118 are now "tennessine" and "oganesson". For these trivial names, all elements receive the suffix "-ium", except those in group 17 which receive "-ine" (like the halogens) and those in group 18 which receive "-on" (like the noble gases). The systematic symbol is formed by taking the first letter