[f. as prec. + -ITE.]
1. Chem. A salt of antimonious acid.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 106/1. The antimonites are not an important class of salts.
1863. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 324. Ammiolite, or (so-called) Antimonite of mercury occurs, mixed with clay … in the quicksilver mines.
† 2. Min. Obsolete synonym of STIBNITE. (Dana.)
