bismuth

English

A bismuth crystal

Chemical element
Bi
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Etymology

From German Wismut, perhaps from weiß (“white”) Masse (“mass”).

Pronunciation

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

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
• regulus of bismuth
• telluric bismuth
• telluride of bismuth
• tellurobismuthite
• white bismuth

Related terms

→

• bismanol
• BSCCO

• Pepto-Bismol

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: bismut (af)
• Albanian: bizmut
• Arabic: بِزْمُوث‎ m (bizmūṯ)
• Armenian: բիսմութ (hy) (bismutʿ)
• Asturian: bismutu m
• Basque: bismutoa
• Belarusian: ві́смут m (vísmut)
• Breton: bismut
• Bulgarian: би́смут m (bísmut)
• Catalan: bismut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 鉍 (pit)

  Mandarin: 鉍 (zh), 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)
• Interlingue: bismute
• Irish: biosmat
• Italian: bismuto (it) m
• Japanese: ビスマス (ja) (bisumusu), 蒼鉛 (sōen)
• Kashubian: bizmùt
• Korean: 비스무트 (ko) (biseumuteu), 창연 (ko) (chang-yeon) (蒼鉛)

• 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)
• 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 (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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bis.myt/

Noun

bismuth m (uncountable)

1. bismuth

Further reading

• “bismuth” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ˦zmœ˧ð]

Noun

bismuth n

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

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

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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.