How to Use bismuth in a Sentence

bismuth

noun

• Here, the stripe-forming process is driven by the forces at play among the bismuth atoms and the metal below.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• In each, the FN303 fired a non-toxic brittle metal bismuth, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2022
• This year, Boss improved its loads by plating its bismuth pellets with about 1 mm of copper.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2020
• When the device is immersed in water, bismuth vanadate absorbs sunlight and triggers the process of splitting the water at the anode.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• At the time, according to Jefferson Lab, it was commonly thought that the bismuth present with cobalt was what gave the ceramics their color.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 June 2017
• At the time, according to Jefferson Lab, it was commonly thought that the bismuth present with cobalt was what gave the ceramics their color.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
• The material, β-Bi2Pd, is a thin film of crystalline bismuth and palladium.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2019
• Sub-gauge guns are more popular than ever, mostly due to the advancement of tungsten and bismuth shotshells, which are more deadly than straight steel and even lead offerings.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 21 Jan. 2020
• In the future, the photographer plans to test out more exotic thermites like bismuth trioxide and manganese dioxide.
  — Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
• Such haphazard poisoning of our wildlife can be avoided if sport hunters switch to widely available non-toxic ammunition, such as steel, copper, and bismuth.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2016
• Each of these devices has a cathode composed of a photovoltaic perovskite and a cobalt catalyst, and an anode made of the photocatalyst bismuth vanadate.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• Both Wood’s metal (an alloy of bismuth, lead, tin, and cadmium) and lead melt at relatively low temperatures that allow them to be used in casting without damaging the bone.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2014
• The authors tested a variety of solvents (indium, bismuth, lead, silver, and more) as well as nickel, copper, and platinum catalysts.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2017
• Their sample, made from barium, lead, bismuth and oxygen, was fully three-dimensional.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• Goodyear is looking to use thermoelectric materials (like bismuth telluride and tin selenide), to generate electricity from the difference between the hottest and coolest parts of the rubber.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
• Not surprisingly, many of the elements that like to bond with sulfur were there: copper, lead, bismuth, tin as well as more exotic elements like lithium, uranium and niobium (the latter three at less than one part per million).
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• Unleaded options include relatively cheap tin, bismuth and steel and more expensive tungsten.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
• Using more thermoelectrically efficient materials like bismuth telluride would boost the power output, but the advantage here is that the device is low cost, stretchable, and completely biodegradable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024