The other night I took a glimpse at the huge periodic table blutacked to my bedroom wall quickly before heading to trivia. My eyes landed on the element Bi. Bismuth. I took a shining (haha shining, get it it's a metal) to it because I had never actually heard of that one before and i liked how it sounded when i pronounced it later that night, when i was tapped on the shoulder because i was talking while they were asking the science question. what is the element Bi? i couldnt believe i. it was meant to be. it was my element. now what to do with it? i still didnt know what it was used for or anything about it.
Here it is straight from wikipedia, my new favourite element, and so pretty it is.
This trivalent poor metal chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. Bismuth is heavy and brittle; it has a silvery white color with a pink tinge owing to the surface oxide. Bismuth is the most naturally diamagnetic of all metals, and only mercury has a lower thermal conductivity. It is generally considered to be the last naturally occurring stable, non-radioactive element on the periodic table, although it is actually slightly radioactive, with an extremely long half-life. Bismuth compounds are used in cosmetics, medicines, and in medical procedures.
we didnt win trivia. we never do, but i was proud i knew at least one answer.
