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 ...

WE wish to report the preparation and properties of moderately stable solutions of pentavalent bismuth in aqueous fluoride solutions. Apart from brief reports in two early papers 1,2, the solution ...

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.

At the GIA Laboratory, mineralogists related the stone to synthetic bismuth antimonate (BiSbO), but with a formula arrangement never previously found in the natural world. Kyawthuite is a unique ...