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bismuth
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" Bismuth " is the twentieth and twenty-first episode of the third season of American animated television series Steven Universe , which premiered on August 4, 2016 on Cartoon Network . It was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams, Colin Howard, Jeff ...
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n. 1 A chemical element (''symbol'' Bi) with an atomic number of 83. 2 (cx countable English) A single atom of this element.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1660s, from obsolete German Bismuth , also Wismut , Wissmuth (early 17c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps a miner's contraction of wis mat "white mass," from Old High German hwiz "white." Latinized 1530 by Georgius Agricola (who may have been the first ...
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n. a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals [syn: Bi , atomic number 83 ]
Usage examples of bismuth.
The bismuth is precipitated by the addition of ammonic carbonate, and the solution, after filtering and acidifying with nitric acid, is re-electrolysed.
Nessler tube and the colour compared with that observed in a similar tube containing water and potassium iodide on adding the standard solution of bismuth.
If the discharges are very profuse, the fluid extract of cranesbill may be administered in from two to ten-drop doses alternately with the bismuth.
After that it becomes astatine for three ten-thousandths of a second, and bismuth for an hour, and polonium 212 for three ten-millionths of a second.
The bismuth was separated from this precipitate with ammonic carbonate before determination, and 0.
Since none of the commoner metals give such a colour, and free iodine is easily separated by boiling, this method is specially suited for small determinations of bismuth.
It also mentions tin, cadmium, lead, bismuth, cobalt, titanium, vanadium, boron, sodium and zirconium as special purpose additives.
The other elements to be looked for are bismuth, lead, antimony, silver, gold, iron, nickel, cobalt, sulphur, and oxygen.
Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc and Cadmium, Mercury, Tin, Lead, Bismuth, Antimony, Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Uranium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, the Platinum Group.
From then on, I carried a bottle of paregoric in one pocket and a bottle of bismuth subnitrate in the other.
I had taken two courses of sulfaguanidine and still carried a bottle of paregoric and a bottle of bismuth in each hip pocket.
CHAPTER TWELVE GOING HOME Throughout our time on Guam I continued to go on patrols and to perform my duties as war dog veterinarian with a bottle of paregoric in one back pocket and one of bismuth subnitrate in the other.
Milk of Beauty, Perline, Opaline, Ivorine--but it means bismuth all the same.
Quinine for the regular morning and evening doses, sulphonal and trional for insomnia, ether for injections in case of anemia after hemorrhage, morphine for delirium, citrite of caffeine for weakness of the heart, tincture of valerian for the tympanites, bismuth to relieve nausea and vomiting, and the crushed ice wrapped in flannel cloths for the cold pack in the event of hyperpyrexia.
If the discharges are very profuse, the fluid extract of cranesbill may be administered in from two to ten-drop doses alternately with the bismuth.