This is bismuth — a natural chemical element that chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. But there’s a catch with this crystal. While bismuth occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust ...

[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 ...

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.

Bismuth is an unusual element that we don't encounter much in everyday life. But this pretty, iridescent metal, found near ...

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It was recognized early on that the periodic table more or less fizzles out after element 83, bismuth. All subsequent ... searching for element 87 among natural sources and, in many cases, from ...

Admittedly, we have a pretty low bar for that kind of stuff, but eye candy aside, [Robin Debreuil]’s quick outline of his technique for desoldering with the help of bismuth is worth watching.

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Natural resources are materials or substances that are produced by the environment. Humans use natural resources to survive. They can be used to heat homes, transport people around the world, feed ...