The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ANTIMONY
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More clues leading to the result ANTIMONY
- Element supporting barter economy perhaps seeing no end to trade
- A US city concealing an Athenian element
- One’s taken by Mark, perhaps, to be a metalloid
- Worker with one day to get unknown element
- Abandoning East, not a fan of the rich element
- Element opposed to non- English currency
- Element opposing energy being extracted from tin
- Element opposing this person’s carrying on
- Element against capitalism, not English
- Athenian character gets in some sort of metal
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The straight part
We know that "element" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case element = antimony.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ANTIMONY mean?
ANTIMONY noun- A chemical element (symbol Sb, from Latin stibium) with an atomic number of 51: a lustrous gray metalloid.
- The alloy stibnite.