What are Bismuth Crystals? | 合法藥品大搜索

Bismuthisacrystallinewhitemetalthatisstillsolidatroomtemperature,however​,itdoesn'ttakemuchtomeltit.Oncemolten,afterthebismuthcoolsbackdown,it​ ...

By Jackie Valentine, Exhibits Experience Lead at the Fleet Science Center.

We often think of metals as being these hard, tough, heavy, almost invincible things.  But in reality, there are a ton—no pun intended—of different varieties of metals. Some metals bend easily and other metals are stiff.  Some metals can withstand incredibly high amounts of heat before melting and other metals melt at incredibly low temperatures—like mercury which has a lower melting point than ice!  That means if you cooled down mercury and water together down to the point that the water turns to ice, the mercury would still be a liquid!

Bismuth  is a crystalline white metal that is still solid at room temperature, however, it doesn’t take much to melt it. Once molten, after the bismuth cools back down, it organizes its molecules into really interesting shapes. When matter organizes its ...