{"id":2754,"date":"2026-06-25T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:55:00","slug":"bismuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/bismuth\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Bismuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismuth is a brittle, silvery white post transition metal notable for low toxicity relative to other heavy metals and for colorful oxide patinas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Bismuth<\/strong> | It has low thermal conductivity, high density and forms stable +3 oxidation state compounds used in catalysts and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Bismuth<\/strong> | Bismuth is recovered from sulfide ores and used in low melting alloys, Pepto Bismol formulations, cosmetics and as a lead substitute in some applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Bismuth<\/strong> | Naturally occurring Bi 209 is effectively stable though weakly radioactive by modern measurements; bismuth compounds are generally low in acute toxicity but handled per safety data sheets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low toxicity heavy metal used in pharmaceuticals, alloys and cosmetics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}