bismuth

English

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bismuth

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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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• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɪzməθ

Noun

bismuth (countable and uncountable, plural bismuths)

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

Derived terms

• acicular bismuth
• bismite
• bismuth acetate
• bismuthal
• bismuthane
• bismuthate
• bismuth-blende
• bismuth bromide
• bismuth carbonate
• bismuth chloride
• bismuth citrate
• bismuthene
• bismuth fluoride
• bismuth-glance
• bismuth hydride
• bismuthian
• bismuthic
• bismuthide
• bismuthiferous
• bismuthine
• bismuthinite
• bismuth iodide
• bismuthism
• bismuthite, bismutite
• bismuth molybdate
• bismuth-nickel
• bismuth nitrate
• bismuth nitrate pentahydrate
• bismuthoan
• bismuth-ocher, bismuth-ochre
• bismuthonium
• bismuth orthoborate
• bismuth orthophosphate
• bismuthosis
• 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
• clinobisvanite
• dibismuth
• dibismuthide
• dodecabismuth
• eka-bismuth
• flowers of bismuth
• heptabismuth
• hexabismuth
• magistery of bismuth
• magnesium bismuthide
• mineral bismuth
• native bismuth
• organobismuth
• palladobismutharsenide
• pentabismuth
• pink bismuth
• radiobismuth
• regulus of bismuth
• telluric bismuth
• telluride of bismuth
• tellurobismuthite
• tetrabismuth
• tribismuth
• white bismuth

Related terms

• bismanol
• BSCCO
• Pepto-Bismol

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: bismut (af) Albanian: bizmut Arabic: بِزْمُوث m (bizmūṯ) Armenian: բիսմութ (hy) (bismutʻ) Asturian: bismutu (ast) m Basque: bismutoa Belarusian: ві́смут m (vísmut) Breton: bismut Bulgarian: би́смут m (bísmut) Catalan: bismut (ca) m Chinese: Hakka: 鉍 / 铋 (pit) Mandarin: 鉍 / 铋 (zh) (bì) Cornish: bismuth 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 (ja) (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: Cyrillic: бисмут (mn) (bismut) Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠰᠮ᠌ᠦ᠌ᠲ (bismüt) Norwegian: Bokmål: vismut m or n Nynorsk: vismut (nn) m or n Occitan: bismut (oc) 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 Yiddish: וויזמוט m (vizmut)

See also

• tetradymite

Anagrams

• Thimbus, shitbum

Cornish

Chemical element
Bi
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Next: poloniom (Po)

Etymology

Borrowed from English bismuth.

Noun

bismuth m

1. bismuth

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

bismuth

Wikipedia ^da

Chemical element
Bi
Previous: bly (Pb)
Next: polonium (Po)

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From German Wismut, from Latin bisemūtum, from Arabic بِسِيمُوتِيُّون (bisīmūtiyyūn), from Ancient Greek ψιμύθιον (psimúthion).

Noun

bismuth c (singular definite bismuthen, not used in plural form)

1. bismuth

Declension

Declension of bismuth

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	bismuth	bismuthen
genitive	bismuths	bismuthens

References

• “bismuth” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

bismuth

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Inherited 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.

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ˦zmœ˧ð]

Noun

bismuth n

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

Inflection

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