An oddball superconductor is the first of its kind — and if scientists are lucky, its discovery may lead to others. At a frigid temperature 5 ten-thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, bismuth ...

A reader recently requested a chemistry lesson about bismuth. Why?? Beats me. It takes all kinds. Some people eat sweetbreads and some like nipple clamps. What follows may or may not be worse. And, by ...

An element that occurs native in small quantities, but is generally obtained as a by-product in the refining of lead, copper, tin, silver and gold ores (American Bismuth). It can also be extracted ...

Ball-and-stick model of a molecular complex showing three bismuth atoms forming a triangular ring between two uranium atoms, surrounded by ligand atoms including silicon, nitrogen, and carbon. By ...

Scientists have created complexes with aromatic three-atom bismuth rings that are stabilised by heavy actinide atoms. These ...