R. Thomas Sanderson
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Professor of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1963–78. Author of Simple Inorganic Substances and others.
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Bismuth (Bi), the most metallic and the least abundant of the elements in the nitrogen group (Group 15 [Va] of the periodic table). Bismuth is hard, brittle, lustrous, and coarsely crystalline. It can be distinguished from all other metals by its colour—gray-white with a reddish tinge. atomic…
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