bismuth

bismuth

English

A bismuth crystal

Chemical element
Bi
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Etymology

From German Wismuth, from Middle High German wismāt, from Latin bisemūtum, from Arabic بِسِيمُوتِيُّون‎ (bisīmūtiyyūn), from Ancient Greek ψιμύθιον (psimúthion, “white lead”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bĭz'məth, IPA^(key): /ˈbɪz.məθ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪzməθ

Noun

bismuth (countable and uncountable, plural bismuths)

1. A chemical element (symbol Bi) with an atomic number of 83: a brittle silvery-white metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• acicular bismuth
• bismite
• bismuth acetate
• bismuthal
• bismuthane
• bismuth-blende
• bismuth bromide
• bismuth carbonate
• bismuth chloride
• bismuth citrate
• bismuth fluoride
• bismuth-glance
• bismuth hydride
• bismuthic
• bismuthide
• bismuthine
• bismuthinite
• bismuthite, bismutite
• bismuth iodide
• bismuth molybdate
• bismuth-nickel
• bismuth nitrate
• bismuth nitrate pentahydrate
• bismuth-ocher, bismuth-ochre
• bismuth orthoborate
• bismuth orthophosphate
• bismuthous
• bismuth oxide
• bismuth oxycarbonate
• bismuth oxychloride
• bismuth oxyiodide
• bismuth pentoxide
• bismuth selenide
• bismuth silicate
• bismuth-silver
• bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide
• bismuth subnitrate
• bismuth subsalicylate
• bismuth sulfide, bismuth sulphide
• bismuth telluride
• bismuth-tellurium
• bismuth triacetate
• bismuth tribromide
• bismuth trichloride
• bismuth trifluoride
• bismuth triiodide
• bismuth trinitrate
• bismuth trioxide
• bismuth triselenide
• bismuth trisulfate, bismuth trisulphate
• bismuth trisulfide, bismuth trisulphide
• bismuthyl
• butter of bismuth
• eka-bismuth
• flowers of bismuth
• magistery of bismuth
• magnesium bismuthide
• mineral bismuth
• native bismuth
• pink bismuth
• regulus of bismuth
• telluric bismuth
• telluride of bismuth
• tellurobismuthite
• white bismuth

Related terms

Related terms

• bismanol
• BSCCO
• Pepto-Bismol

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: bismut (af) Albanian: bizmut Arabic: بِزْمُوث‎ m (bizmūṯ) Armenian: բիսմութ (hy) (bismutʿ) Asturian: bismutu (ast) m Basque: bismutoa Belarusian: ві́смут m (vísmut) Breton: bismut Bulgarian: би́смут m (bísmut) Catalan: bismut (ca) m Chinese: Hakka: 鉍 (pit) Mandarin: 鉍／铋 (zh) (bì) Cornish: bysmuth Czech: bismut (cs) m, vizmut (cs) m (rare) Danish: vismuth n Dutch: bismut (nl) n Esperanto: bismuto (eo) Estonian: vismut (et) Faroese: vismut n Finnish: vismutti (fi) French: bismuth (fr) m Friulian: bismut Galician: bismuto (gl) m Georgian: ბისმუტი (bismuṭi) German: Wismut (de) n, Bismut (de) n Greek: βισμούθιο (el) n (vismoúthio) Hebrew: בִּיסְמוּת‎ (he) (bismút) Hindi: भिदातु (bhidātu) Hungarian: bizmut (hu) Icelandic: bismút (is) Irish: biosmat Italian: bismuto (it) m Japanese: ビスマス (ja) (bisumusu), 蒼鉛 (sōen) Kashubian: bizmùt Korean: 비스무트 (ko) (biseumuteu), 창연(蒼鉛) (ko) (chang'yeon) Latin: bisemutum (la) Latvian: bismuts Lithuanian: bismutas (lt) Luxembourgish: Wismut Macedonian: бисмут m (bismut) Malay: bismut, timah wurung Maltese: biżmut Manx: bismut Mongolian: бисмут (mn) (bismut) ᠪᠢᠰᠮ᠌ᠦ᠌ᠲ (bismüt) Norwegian: Bokmål: vismut m or n Nynorsk: vismut (nn) m or n Occitan: bismut m Persian: بیسموت‎ (bismut) Polish: bizmut (pl) m Portuguese: bismuto (pt) m Romanian: bismut (ro) n Russian: ви́смут (ru) m (vísmut) Scottish Gaelic: biosmat Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бизмут Roman: bizmut (sh) m Slovak: bizmut (sk) m Slovene: bizmut (sl) Spanish: bismuto (es) m Swedish: vismut (sv) Tajik: бисмут (bismut) Tamil: பிஸ்மத் (pismat) Thai: บิสมัท (bís-mát) Turkish: bizmut (tr) Ukrainian: ві́смут m (vísmut) Uzbek: висмут (uz) (vismut), vismut (uz) Vietnamese: bitmut, bismut Volapük: bismutin (vo) Welsh: bismwth (cy) West Frisian: bismut

See also

• tetradymite

Anagrams

• Thimbus, shitbum

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Danish

Alternative forms

• bismut, vismut (obsolete), vismuth (obsolete)

Noun

bismuth

1. bismuth

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French

Etymology

From Middle French bismuot, bissemut, from German Wismut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis.myt/

• Audio

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Noun

bismuth m (uncountable)

1. bismuth

Further reading

• “bismuth”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ˦zmœ˧ð]

Noun

bismuth n

1. (uncountable) bismuth
2. A part of bismuth

Inflection

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Manx

Noun

bismuth m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. bismuth

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bismuth	vismuth	mismuth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.