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Thin antimony films deposited by evaporation from a PtSb source differ from films produced from elementary antimony in electrical resistance, light transmission, reaction with oxygen, and particle size. Qualitative mass spectroscopic experiments indicate that these differences may be due to antimony evaporating from PtSb predominantly as Sb1 as distinct from the Sb4 aggregates known to evaporate from elementary antimony.
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