Antimonate minerals are those minerals containing the
antimonate In chemistry an antimonate is a compound which contains a metallic element, oxygen, and antimony in an oxidation state of +5. These compounds adopt polymeric structures with M-O-Sb linkages. They can be considered to be derivatives of the hypothetic ...
(SbO
43−) anion group. Both the Dana and the Strunz
Strunz system, Webmineral
/ref> mineral classifications place the antimonates in with the phosphate minerals
Phosphate minerals contain the tetrahedrally coordinated phosphate (PO43−) anion along sometimes with arsenate (AsO43−) and vanadate (VO43−) substitutions, and chloride (Cl−), fluoride (F−), and hydroxide (OH−) anions that also fit i ...
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