Ram Mohan looks at how bismuth — a remarkably harmless element among the toxic heavy metals in the periodic table — has sparked interest in areas varying from medicinal to industrial chemistry.
[NightHawkInLight] has been playing around with the diamagnetic properties of bismuth. Diamagnetic materials get a lot of attention due to their strange ability to produce the opposite of the ...
Bismuth was one of the first agents used against ... and thus precludes the addition of amino acids to the growing peptide chain. Tetracycline has demonstrated in vitro efficacy against H pylori ...