Bismuth

Bismuth has a series of excellent characteristics, such as high specific gravity, low melting point, volume expansion and contraction during solidification, etc.,

Crystalline, brittle metal, with reddish tinge. Soluble in nitric and hydrochloric acids. Highly diamagnetic (mass susceptibility -1.35 X 106). Expands 3.3% on solidification.

Bismuth is a metalloid element, with the element symbol Bi, belonging to the VIA group in the periodic table, atomic number 83, atomic mass 208.9804 g.mol -1. Bismuth has a melting point of 271 °C and a boiling point of 1420 °C .