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Let's have a bismuth thread.
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Fuck yeah Bismuth!
Gayest of all elements.
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>>10I love it when they come out really bright like that.
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Why don't we have a bismuth board? Who cares about all that other dirt?
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>>15Because there's a bunch of other cool minerals too.
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>>15If you feel that way you can make your own board for it.
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Would this count for this thread?
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>>58No but I'll allow it.
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>>18Oooh! What crystal is that? It's purrdy…
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>>66It's fluorite but this is a bismuth thread.
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>>60wud u fug a bismuth loli
Also, I would sell my soul to live in a city like this.
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POST MORE BISMUTH
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HOW THE FUCK CAN THIS ROCKS EXISTS
ARE THEY FROM AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE
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>>122Nope straight from earth. Not only is it gorgeous but it's useful too. It's used in medicines to cure upset stomachs and diarrhea and many other things.
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>>125you mean this stuff? what?!
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>>134Yep. I believe it has uses in electrical outlets too or something but I'm not sure. Bismuth is one of the main ingredients to Pepto-Bismol.
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Why is Bismuth(III) oxide so iridescent?
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>>143I'm pretty sure most of the bright specimens are lab made.
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what does Bysmuth feel like?
Is it metalic?
Where can I find a sample of it?
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>>177It feels metalic yeah but it's really brittle. You can easily buy some on the internet.
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>>136>I believe it has uses in electrical outlets too or something but I'm not sure.
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Pure bismuth is fairly easily meltable, and will crystallize as it cools.
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>>297can you rub it on your cock ?
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>>366>fapping to 3D bismuth>>60 No.391
Woah! H-how? Is this proof of God? I think it is.
atheists - 0
rocks - 1
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>>366technically bismuth melts at 86 degrees so you could actually dip your teenie in and it would feel warm and wet
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Flood detection after 2 posts?
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Bismuth is one of my favorite minerals.
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>>396once it melts how does it look when it resolidifies?
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>>587It's just a greyish metal lump. You can't get big crystals like in all thse pics without growing in a lab
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I want to lick Bismuth.
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>>605I want to chew on it. Flakey mica too. CRUNCH CRUNCH
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>go to rock and gem show that's hosted on the fairgrounds in the spring
>sellers
>Japanese dude there
>sells the most beautiful bismuth crystals I've ever seen
>wraps them up in neat japanese newspapers and wishes me farewell
man that rock and gem show was always maximum comfy
Haven't been there in 2 years, though
Hopefully he's still there.
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THIS SHIT IS SO FUCKING COOL THANK YOU NATURE
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Any /sci/encefags know how and why bismuth crystals take these forms? I know some stuff about the chemical composition of rocks, but I'm a bit ignorant as to crystal geometry
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>>122
Also, it's a Mineral, not technically a rock. There'd have to be other minerals mixed with it for the lump to be considered a rock.
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Copy-paste from wikipedia:
>Bismuth is a brittle metal with a white, silver-pink hue, often occurring in its native form, with an iridescent oxide tarnish showing many colors from yellow to blue. The spiral, stair-stepped structure of bismuth crystals is the result of a higher growth rate around the outside edges than on the inside edges. The variations in the thickness of the oxide layer that forms on the surface of the crystal causes different wavelengths of light to interfere upon reflection, thus displaying a rainbow of colors. When burned in oxygen, bismuth burns with a blue flame and its oxide forms yellow fumes.[12] Its toxicity is much lower than that of its neighbors in the periodic table, such as lead, antimony, and polonium.
>At ambient conditions bismuth shares the same layered structure as the metallic forms of arsenic and antimony,[23] crystallizing in the rhombohedral lattice[24] (Pearson symbol hR6, space group R3m No. 166), which is often classed into trigonal or hexagonal crystal systems.[2] When compressed at room temperature, this Bi-I structure changes first to the monoclinic Bi-II at 2.55 GPa, then to the tetragonal Bi-III at 2.7 GPa, and finally to the body-centered cubic Bi-IV at 7.7 GPa. The corresponding transitions can be monitored via changes in electrical conductivity; they are rather reproducible and abrupt, and are therefore used for calibration of high-pressure equipment.[25][26]
(Copy-paste fucked up one of the symmetry symbols though)
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