bismuthn.
/ˈbɪzməθ/, /ˈbɪsməθ/, U.S. /ˈbɪzməθ/ One of the elementary bodies; a reddish white metal, found native, and also in combination in numerous ores; it is brittle and melts at a low temperature. (Chemically, bismuth (Bi) is closely allied to antimony n., and is, in different combinations, a triad and a pentad. Its chief use in the arts is as an alloy; the oxide and some salts are used in medicine.) acicular bismuth = aikinite n., also called needle-ore; †butter of bismuth, bismuth chloride; flowers of bismuth, an efflorescence of the oxide on minerals containing metallic bismuth; magistery of bismuth, white bismuth, the subnitrate or basic nitrate of bismuth, used as a paint and cosmetic under the name of Pearl White, Pearl Powder; regulus of bismuth, an old name for the metal; telluric bismuth (see Compounds 1); mineral bismuth, native bismuth, bismuth occurring as a brittle mineral in crystals, etc.
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tin-glassa1558
wismuth1650
white antimony1664
bismuth1668
Bi1814
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native alloys
iridosmine1827
platiniridium1848
allemontite1850
sysertskite1850
nevyanskite1854
osmiridium1854
shakudo1860
bismuth-silver1863
telluric bismuth1866
wehrlite1874
josephinite1892
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > stibnite group > bismuth telluride
telluric bismuth1866
joseite1868
grünlingite1898
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 66 Imperfect kinds of Metal..used for Making of Pewter, being of shining brittle substance: Bismute, Tin-glass.
1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 189 In the mountains of Sudnos in Bohemia there was some years ago found a metal, by them called Bismuto.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Bismutum, that which is called Tinglosse, differing both from Tin and Lead.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 454/2 It perfectly resists the destructive power of lead, bismuth, and the antimonial semi metal.
1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 42 Diamagnetic.—Bismuth, antimony, zinc, &c.
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C1. attributive. Of or combined with bismuth, as bismuth alloys, bismuth compounds, bismuth ores, bismuth salts, etc.; esp. in Chemistry, in systematic names of compounds, as bismuth carbonate, bismuth pentoxide, bismuth silicate, bismuth trisulphide.
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1847 E. J. Seymour Severe Dis. I. 8 I recommended the bismuth mixture.
1869 Daily News 12 June Those wondrous demoiselles with low hair [and] bismuth eyebrows.
C2. Mineralogy.
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bismuth-blende n. native silicate of bismuth or eulytite n.
bismuth-glance n. = bismuthinite n. at bismuthal adj. Compounds.
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needle ore1805
bismuth-glance1839
rezbanyite1882
ikunolite1959
bismuthinite-
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 119 Bismuth..is a rare substance, occurring native..as a sulphuret, called bismuth glance.
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bismuth-nickel n. a native ore of bismuth and nickel in union with sulphur, = grünauite n.
bismuth-ochre n. the native oxide of bismuth, = bismite n.
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honey stone1792
bismuth-ochre1796
mellilite1796
melilithus1800
mellite1801
melilite1814
manganesite1823
heterocline1844
romeine1844
crednerite1849
roméite1849
whewellite1852
manganite1865
magnesioferrite1868
oxammite1870
molybdomenite1885
lautarite1892
tripuhyite1897
coronadite1904
hollandite1906
melanovanadite1921
quenselite1926
salesite1939
yttrotungstite1950
ordoñezite1953
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 265 Bismuth. Mineralized by Oxygen, with or without Sulphur. Bismuth Ochre.
bismuth-silver n. a native alloy of bismuth and silver, Ag6Bi, = chilenite n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native alloys
iridosmine1827
platiniridium1848
allemontite1850
sysertskite1850
nevyanskite1854
osmiridium1854
shakudo1860
bismuth-silver1863
telluric bismuth1866
wehrlite1874
josephinite1892
1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 597 A bismuth-silver from the mine of San Antonio, Chili.
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bismuth-tellurium n. (also telluric bismuth) a native alloy, Bi2Te3, = tetradymite n.
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