[Robin] starts with a demonstration of just how far a little bismuth depresses the melting point of tin solder — to about 135°. That allows plenty of time to work, and freeing leads from pads ...

These relativistic effects are responsible for many of bismuth's surprising properties, such as its unconventional ...

Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

More digestible than silicon Troubled Chipzilla and its mates at TSMC might want to start sweating because a bunch of Beijing ...

and has been used to prepare low-melting typesetting alloys that need to expand to fill printing moulds. Bismuth trioxide is also the main ingredient in fireworks called dragon's eggs — those ...

when melted it appears a brighter shinier shade of grey Made up of tin (approximately 90 per cent), antimony (7 per cent) and other metals such as copper or bismuth, it has a low melting point ...