Enhanced TDS
Knowde-enriched technical product data sheet
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Chemical Name
- Base Chemicals Functions
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- CAS No.
- 34364-26-6
- EC No.
- 251-964-6
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Properties
Bismuth is marginally radioactive and is the most naturally diamagnetic element. It has one of the lowest values of thermal conductivity among metals. It has a high electrical resistivity. Like water, bismuth is less dense as a solid than as a liquid (it expands as it cools), a property unique for a metal.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Applicable Processes
- Base Chemicals End Uses
- Applications
- Bismuth metal: is used as an additive in copper, aluminum, iron, and steel to toughen and make alloys that are more machinable, bismuth shot for shotgun ammunition, bismuth powder for radiation shielding in medical application.
- Bismuth alloys: used as lens block or work holding for turbine blades, radiation shielding, tube bending, soldering, fusible alloys.
- Bismuth oxides: glass, ceramics, varistor, arrestor, capacitor, ferrites, coatings.
- Bismuth compounds: catalyst in coating industry, pigments, friction materials, catalyst in plastic industry, lubricants, cosmetics.
- Bismuth pharmaceuticals: Several different Bi based products are used for peptic ulcer, upset stomach, diarrhea, ointments, suppositories, and veterinary purposes.