Home-made bismuth. I made some home-made bismuth crystals, but Tryggvi made home-made bismuth. He needed some bismuth metal one day, but only had some kind of bismuth salt. So he worked out a reaction and precipitated it, then he had bismuth metal. Click the source link for an ...
I made this small garden of bismuth crystals for the photo shoot for one of myPopular Science articles. OK, so it's not as impressive as the one above, but I made it using the most simple possible procedure that anyone could duplicate with minimal practice. All it takes is a pot of ...
Bismuth - Science Fair Projects Free Science Fair Pictures Bismuth is a crystalline white metal, with a pink tinge. The iridescent color of this bismuth crystal is the result of a thin oxide layer on its surface. Dschwen, wikipedia.org 46 of 74 Diamonds - Science Fair Projects Free Sc...
BISMUTH – Bismuth is commonly identified only as the 83rd element in the Periodic Table of Elements. What you might not be familiar with is how it actually looks. It has the metallic form of arsenic and antimony with a hint of pink and blue. Generally, it looks like a staircase made o...
big tweezers to pick out crystals pliers to handle crucible if it has no handle The crucible I used (OK it's a mixing bowl from IKEA) is a little big for the pound of bismuth I got. Because melted bismuth oxidizes so fast, you want as small an area as possible exposed to the air...
The size and shape of the crystals is very sensitive to the purity of the material: This bullet lead is relatively low purity and therefor forms relatively small crystals: As a rule the higher the purity, the larger the crystals, with the most spectacular example being bismuth of 99.99% or...
This looks a lot like a slab of bismuth broken crystal, which is the standard way bismuth is sold. The top and bottom surfaces are relatively smooth, and between them crystals have grown into each other. (I figure they must pour the material between two plates, then break it up into man...
Bismuth Crystals Bismuth in its elemental form is a rare occurance in nature, even more so for bismuth crystals. Lab grown crystals are popular because of their intricate shapes and dazzaling colors. Silicon Silicon is a metallic element used to make computer chips and other electronic equipment...
The crystal structure of the metal bismuth is as beautiful as the oxide layer that forms on it.Kerstin Waurick / Getty Images Purebismuthis a silver-gray metal, sometimes with a faint pink tinge. However, this element readily oxidizes into a rainbow array of colors. ...
bulk antimony in small, dull chunks, but it turned out that with a little washing up this material is beautiful just as it comes. The crystals are bright and shiny, similar in some ways to polycrystalline bismuth, though antimony does not form the interesting hopper crystals bismuth does. ...