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Bismuth has a metallic sheen of peach-colored white. It emits yellow smoke from its flames, which produce a blue flame. Bismuth has an extremely low melting point of 271°. It is possible to melt bismuth in a small stainless steel pot at home and let it cool down. The bismuth actually expands upon freezing, much like water. A partial oxidation of the crystal surface results in a rainbow-colored spectrum. This is due to different thicknesses of the oxide film on the bismuth crystal top.
What is bismuth like to gold?
It is twice as abundant as gold in the earth’s crust, and one of the most rare metals. It is the number83 element in a periodic table and the heavyest element. Its international average price is just a few dollars a kilogram. It is extremely affordable compared to other fossil material.
Bismuth was used to make boxes and other boxes in ancient Greece, Rome and beyond.
How does bismuth achieve its iridescent sheen appearance?
Due to the spiral step structure of the bismuth-crystal, the oxide film surrounding the outer edge is growing at a faster rate. It will interfere with light. Bismuth is often found as free metal or minerals in nature. When scientists heat bismuth to a high temperature, the flames can cause bismuth oxide to form. This happens when the liquid is dissolved in bismuth. The polarized rainbow of colors that results from cooling from silver are able to produce complex and regular bismuth crystallines. Its color can be determined by how thick the outer oxide layer is, which reflects different metal colors. It is sometimes compared to lead which is often replaced with bismuth.
Why bismuth?
Bismuth has a density similar to lead, but is less toxic than the former. Lead can cause kidney damage and convulsions. Lead poisoning is responsible for many deaths among children. Foreign hunters often replace the lead bullets in their hunting rifles by ammunition made of bismuth. Bismuth is used for killing animals.
Bismuth’s thermal and electrical conductivity are low. Bismuth has a melting temperature of 271.5 degrees Celsius.
Bismuth crystals shine brighter than diamonds, and can be transformed into many arts and crafts. Bismuth can also be used in cutting edge technologies such as superconductors, nuclear testing, and other applications.
The University of Delaware published a study that found a unique property of bismuth. This metal can be used as an industrial catalyst to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels or chemicals. This discovery could lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and a sustainable method of fuel production, according to the project team.
Researchers call this new bismuth characteristic “catalytic plasticity.” The researchers have previously demonstrated that bismuth films can also be combined with certain liquids to make carbon monoxide gaseous fuel. The new study concluded that electrifying bismuth film in salt solutions containing imidine ions and imidazolium can regulate chemical reactions that transform carbon dioxide into industrial chemical formic acids or liquid fuel gasoline.
According to general theory, chemical reactions can require different catalysts. But the “catalyticplasticity” of bismuth means that the metal bismuth is able to catalyze many kinds of chemical reactions. Researchers pointed out that technical aspects of the new findings, which made use of renewable energy sources like wind power and solar energy to promote direct production, metal bismuth catalyst plasticity, make researchers open a new work direction test. Researchers are expected develop renewable energy conversion, a new method of fuel production, and catalytic.
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