Symbol: Bi
Atomic number: 83
Standard states: 298K
Group: 15
Group name: basic metal
Peroid: 6
Block: p
Color: redish white (pinkish)
Classification: Metallic
radioactive
Fun fact-German word for white mass
was weisse masse
changed to wisuth and then Bismuth
is in pepto-bismol
Bismuth was discovered in 1753 by Claude Geoffroy
Atomic structure P:83 N: 126
atomic structure
Isolation- Bismuth is not normaly need to be made it normally is found as bismite, bismuthinite and bismutite. Bismuth is usally made as a byproduct of copper, lead, tin, silver, gold and zinc plants. The last step is reducing the amount of oxide by charcoal.
Uses: Cosmetics, medicine fire estiguisher used to make malleable irons, as a catalyst for making acrylic fibres, used to carry uranium fuel in nuclear reactors
bismuth crystal
bismuth is in pepto-bismol
