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Monte Of The Month -- January 2016
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,293
From: Pacific NW
Pepto.......Bismol/Bismuth
WOW!!!!, and we take this stuff to make us feel better; radioactive, ingredient in solder, paint and cosmetics?
The Element Bismuth
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83BiBismuth208.98040
Atomic Number: 83
Atomic Weight: 208.98040
Melting Point: 544.55 K (271.40°C or 520.52°F)
Boiling Point: 1837 K (1564°C or 2847°F)
Density: 9.807 grams per cubic centimeter
Phase at Room Temperature: Solid
Element Classification: Metal
Period Number: 6 Group Number: 15 Group Name: Pnictogen
Radioactive
What's in a name? From the German words for white mass, Weisse Masse which was later changed to Wisuth and Bisemutum.
Say what? Bismuth is pronounced as BIZ-meth.
History and Uses:
Bismuth, which has been known since ancient times, was often confused with lead and tin. Bismuth was first shown to be a distinct element in 1753 by Claude Geoffroy the Younger. Bismuth does occur free in nature and in such minerals as bismuthinite (Bi2S3) and bismite (Bi2O3). The largest deposits of bismuth are found in Bolivia, although bismuth is usually obtained as a by-product of mining and refining lead, copper, tin, silver and gold.
Pure bismuth is a white, brittle metal with a slight pink color. Bismuth is usually mixed with other metals, such as lead, tin, iron or cadmium to form low-melting alloys. These alloys are used in such things as automatic fire sprinkler systems, fire detection systems and electrical fuses.
Bismuth oxide (Bi2O3), a bismuth compound, is used as a yellow pigment in paints and cosmetics. Bismuth oxychloride (BiOCl) is used to make a pigment known as bismuth white. Bismuth carbonate (Bi2(CO3)3) is used to treat diarrhea and gastric ulcers.
Once thought to be the heaviest stable isotope to exist in nature, experiments conducted in 2002 showed that bismuth-209 is unstable and decays into thallium-205 through alpha decay. Bismuth-209 has a half-life of roughly 19,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Estimated Crustal Abundance: 8.5×10-3 milligrams per kilogram
Estimated Oceanic Abundance: 2×10-5 milligrams per liter
Number of Stable Isotopes: 0 (View all isotope data)
Ionization Energy: 7.289 eV
Oxidation States: +5, +3
Electron Shell Configuration:
1s2
2s2 2p6
3s2 3p6 3d10
4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14
5s2 5p6 5d10
6s2 6p3
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The Element Bismuth
[Click for Isotope Data]
83BiBismuth208.98040
Atomic Number: 83
Atomic Weight: 208.98040
Melting Point: 544.55 K (271.40°C or 520.52°F)
Boiling Point: 1837 K (1564°C or 2847°F)
Density: 9.807 grams per cubic centimeter
Phase at Room Temperature: Solid
Element Classification: Metal
Period Number: 6 Group Number: 15 Group Name: Pnictogen
Radioactive
What's in a name? From the German words for white mass, Weisse Masse which was later changed to Wisuth and Bisemutum.
Say what? Bismuth is pronounced as BIZ-meth.
History and Uses:
Bismuth, which has been known since ancient times, was often confused with lead and tin. Bismuth was first shown to be a distinct element in 1753 by Claude Geoffroy the Younger. Bismuth does occur free in nature and in such minerals as bismuthinite (Bi2S3) and bismite (Bi2O3). The largest deposits of bismuth are found in Bolivia, although bismuth is usually obtained as a by-product of mining and refining lead, copper, tin, silver and gold.
Pure bismuth is a white, brittle metal with a slight pink color. Bismuth is usually mixed with other metals, such as lead, tin, iron or cadmium to form low-melting alloys. These alloys are used in such things as automatic fire sprinkler systems, fire detection systems and electrical fuses.
Bismuth oxide (Bi2O3), a bismuth compound, is used as a yellow pigment in paints and cosmetics. Bismuth oxychloride (BiOCl) is used to make a pigment known as bismuth white. Bismuth carbonate (Bi2(CO3)3) is used to treat diarrhea and gastric ulcers.
Once thought to be the heaviest stable isotope to exist in nature, experiments conducted in 2002 showed that bismuth-209 is unstable and decays into thallium-205 through alpha decay. Bismuth-209 has a half-life of roughly 19,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Estimated Crustal Abundance: 8.5×10-3 milligrams per kilogram
Estimated Oceanic Abundance: 2×10-5 milligrams per liter
Number of Stable Isotopes: 0 (View all isotope data)
Ionization Energy: 7.289 eV
Oxidation States: +5, +3
Electron Shell Configuration:
1s2
2s2 2p6
3s2 3p6 3d10
4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14
5s2 5p6 5d10
6s2 6p3
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 5,495
From: Nebraska
Spinning ...........(The bed keeps spinning) 
Back in 1978 I had to travel with the owner of the Company that I worked for to a Farm trade show.
He was just turning 50 years old at the time. It was most funny cause he was also chasing girls my age when he was out and about.
So we get to this show and they were having this hospitality appreciation party for all the exhibiters.
The bar was free and there was everything you wanted to drink.
He spotted these Beautiful ladies and was trying to get there attention with no luck he asked them out for dinner, they were reluctant to go with my boss.
So he decided to follow along with them at the Party and every time they got a drink he got one and he got what they got.
So I bumped into him after an hour and was having no luck with these girls at all. He was telling me about there drinking habits and I said, you aren't mixing this stuff up are you? He was.
Well, some folks that I knew wanted to go for dinner and we left, right after we did my boss got ill. He had been mixing all this stuff. I dropped him off at the Hotel and went for dinner.
When I returned later that evening to check on him. He is frantic and says How do you keep the Bed from Spinning.
I told him to put one foot on the floor and left.
Next morning we went back to the show and he was ill most of the day. He called for Ralph several times that day.
He told me never to let him do that again. Ha,Ha like he would listen to me when he was in the season.
Well I guess you had to be there.
Back in 1978 I had to travel with the owner of the Company that I worked for to a Farm trade show.
He was just turning 50 years old at the time. It was most funny cause he was also chasing girls my age when he was out and about.
So we get to this show and they were having this hospitality appreciation party for all the exhibiters.
The bar was free and there was everything you wanted to drink.
He spotted these Beautiful ladies and was trying to get there attention with no luck he asked them out for dinner, they were reluctant to go with my boss.
So he decided to follow along with them at the Party and every time they got a drink he got one and he got what they got.
So I bumped into him after an hour and was having no luck with these girls at all. He was telling me about there drinking habits and I said, you aren't mixing this stuff up are you? He was.
Well, some folks that I knew wanted to go for dinner and we left, right after we did my boss got ill. He had been mixing all this stuff. I dropped him off at the Hotel and went for dinner.
When I returned later that evening to check on him. He is frantic and says How do you keep the Bed from Spinning.
I told him to put one foot on the floor and left.
Next morning we went back to the show and he was ill most of the day. He called for Ralph several times that day.
He told me never to let him do that again. Ha,Ha like he would listen to me when he was in the season.
Well I guess you had to be there.
