bismuth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83, a dense, brittle, crystalline metal that is silvery white with a pink tinge

   Natural bismuth consists almost entirely of the isotope bismuth-209.

Borrowed in the seventeenth century from New Latin bisemutum, a Latinized form of German Wismut or Wismuth. The deeper origin of the German word is uncertain; proposed explanations such as "white mass" remain disputed.

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