Word: bismuthate
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...thesis at the University of Cincinnati he had made an invention. Now the Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted of ten thin plates of bismuth,* piled one on another, with wires running between them, the whole protected by sulphur and contained in a box. It exploited bismuth's properties of rectifying alternating currents and of adding to any charges of energy it receives. . . . Dr. Craig temporized with the $100,000 offer...
Almost every one knows that it is possible to introduce bismuth into the stomach and then, by use of the Xray, to obtain a photograph of the stomach's outlines. The method has become invaluable for the diagnosis of such conditions as ulcers of the stomach-wall. It has long been felt that valuable information could be had regarding the gall-bladder if some method could be found of introducing a substance into the gall-bladder which would make possible the photographing of its outline. Drs. Warren H. Cole and Evarts A. Graham of the Washington University Medical School...
Zinc, borax, and bismuth, H, O plus...
...recitation in Chemistry 1 this week will be on "Bismuth, Antimony and Arsenic." As the class have finished the required laboratory work so early, a number of extra experiments will probably be given...