stibine

With the "Holland solution" it is possible to collect stibine gas.

They react with acids to make the toxic and unstable gas stibine.

Stibine binds to the haemoglobin of red blood cells, causing them to be destroyed by the body.

It reacts with water to make stibine.

It is made by oxidation of stibine.

Does this procedure produce stibine gas?

Because stibine has a positive heat of formation, it is thermodynamically unstable and thus antimony does not react with hydrogen directly.

Antimony is reacted with a mixture of zinc and hydrochloric acid in a tube, making stibine.

Stibine decomposes spontaneously at room temperature.

In 1837 Lewis Thomson and Pfaff independently discovered stibine.

Most cases of stibine poisoning have been accompanied by arsine poisoning, although animal studies indicate that their toxicities are equivalent.

With other reducing agents such as sodium borohydride or lithium aluminium hydride, the unstable and very toxic gas stibine is produced.

The stibine is heated and a shiny area of antimony is made in the heated part of the tube.

The toxicity of stibine is distinct from that of other antimony compounds, but similar to that of arsine.

In 1876 Francis Jones tested several synthesis methods, but it was not before 1901 when Alfred Stock determined most of the properties of stibine.

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As stibine (SbH) is very similar to arsine (AsH), it is also detected by the Marsh test.

The stibine is decomposed to a colored anion, SbI4-, that can be measured photometrically after the iodine in solution is reduced with hypophosphite.

It reacts with oxidizing agents to make antimony pentoxide and with reducing agents to make antimony or stibine.

It also forms explosive fulminating compounds with compounds of gold (element), silver, Mercury (element), germanium or tellurium, and with stibine.

This freshly formed Hydrogen is very reactive, so that chances of further reaction with Antimony (Sb) could lead to the dangerous stibine (antimony hydride) SbH3 formation.

It has only been generated by oxidation of stibine (SbH) at 90 C. Above this temperature and in ambient light, this metastable allotrope transforms into the more stable black allotrope.