Bismuth

Danarenae Donato 12/2/09 Period 4

Name: Bismuth Address: 83 Brittle White- Pinkish Tinge Metal Way Table, Periodic Zip Code: [Xe]6s24f145d106p3 Group: Pnictogen Atomic Number: 83 Atomic Mass: 208.9804 amu Symbol: Bi Other Personal Information: Radioactive   My ideal job would definitely be to work with many of my friends, tin, iron, cadmium, or lead as an alloy. I really want to make fire sprinkler systems, fire detection systems, and electrical fuses. I really enjoy making these objects with my friends as for a long time people couldn’t even tell us apart; we did our job so great and worked so well together that it wasn’t until 1753 when our previous, late boss Claude Geoffroy the Younger recognized that I was a different element. If further information is needed on my earlier working years, I am sure that detailed descriptions can be obtained from other employers, Johann Heinrich Pott and Torbern Olof Bergman, whom studied my properties and determined my reactions with my fellow elements all in the 18th century. If need be, I have records of my early jobs in the mine at Schneeberg in 1477 when those miners still thought I would grow up to be like my friend Silver.   I am the most diamagnetic of all the elements, and my thermal conductivity is lower than any other element, except for that Mercury guy. I have the highest Hall affect of any metal. Moreover, I have a high electrical resistance. Unlike my other heavy metal friends, I am not that toxic and I am not considered a human carcinogen. I can aid in manufacturing low melting solders, fusible alloys, and low toxicity bird shot and fishing sinkers. When I am combined with some of my friends I make various medicines. Furthermore, when I am with some of my friends I can aid in catalysts in manufacturing acrylonitrile, or the starting material for synthetic fibers and rubbers. Moreover, I stated above, with my friends I can make pigments for cosmetics and paints and can make fire sprinkler systems, fire detection systems, and electrical fuses. My safety devices have saved a countless number of lives.  I am excellent at and have much experience in detecting fires and am no stranger to electrical fuses as I have previously stated above. But in addition to working with my friends to make various alloys and medicines, when my friend Manganese and I join forces we like to call ourselves Bismanol and act as a permanent magnet with a high coercive force; we then do a lot of work for the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center. One of my talents is that I have a low thermal conductivity, so when I am with my friends as an alloy, we can make sharp castings of various objects subject to damage by high temperatures. I can also make a thermo-coupling material and a carrier for 235U or 233U fuel in nuclear reactors. If I’m an alloy with tin, iron, cadmium, or lead, I can make fire sprinkler systems, fire detection systems, and electrical fuses. I really enjoy being the yellow pigment in paints and cosmetics when I am combined with my friend Oxygen in a Bismuth oxide form. I definitely like to be the bismuth white pigment in paints and cosmetics as the color was named after me as my name is derived from white mass. I love to be this pigment when I am with my friends Oxygen and Chlorine in a Bismuth oxychloride form. I can, but I rather not, treat diarrhea and gastric ulcers when I work with my friend Carbon in a Bismuth carbonate form.   My friends Oxygen, Chlorine, Lead, Copper, Tin, Silver, Gold, Iron, Sulfur, and Cadmium all love me and work well with me. They would all have great things to say about me as we have worked together for centuries and most of us work on all the jobs we do together as alloys. Moreover, when I do take time off, which is rarely, I always spend time in nature with Sulfur and Oxygen either as Bismuthinite or Bismite.  - Where did you find your information? List your sources here. __[] [] [] []__
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