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 ...

This is the first in the world. It is not found in other countries,” Dr. Kyaw Thu told The Myanmar Times in 2016, recounting ...

Put another way, if 100 grams of bismuth-209 (the natural isotope ... according to Chemicool. Bismuth crystals are easy to make at home. There are several how-to guides online, including this ...

Bismuth, a puzzling material in quantum research, has now revealed a surprising twist. Kobe University scientists discovered that its surface properties can obscure its true nature, challenging a ...

and the unusual shape of its crystals. The unexpected diamagnetism is no exception. "Even though bismuth has the unpaired electrons in its 6p orbital, because of relativistic contraction of the 6s ...

New research explains previous contradictory observations in terms of “topological blocking”, which may occur in other ...

The first surprise was that the bismuth crystals move around on the surface ... This takes place not only in natural systems, but in human ones too: the flow of information on the Internet and ...

The properties of the 83rd element of the periodic table, namely, Bismuth (Bi ... discovered superconductivity of a high quality single crystal of Bi (99.998% pure) at 0.00053 K with a critical ...

Scientists describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth -- a process that may aid the manufacturing of cheap flexible electronics an everyday reality. In a study ...

The review summarized the phase and phase transition regulation of bismuth-based semiconductors ... However, regulating the crystal phases and phase transition of BBSs for promoted photocatalytic ...

He explains, "Among the many properties of bismuth I have studied, I was the first to discover that the crystal structure spontaneously changes due to relaxation near the surface of a crystal.