Word: bismuthate
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...amebic dysentery (which should not be confused with bacillary dysentery or ulcerative colitis) rest in bed, take liquid diet (milk, whey and broths). Treatment is emetine hydrochloride administered subcutaneously (i grain every morning for ten or twelve days) and emetine bismuth iodide orally in keratin capsules (one-half grain every evening...
...barley which Cesario Delgado foraged at Porterville was rat & squirrel bait. It had been poisoned with thallium chloride. Thallium is one of the rare metals. It stands in the periodic system of the elements between mercury and lead. Close neighbors are gold, platinum and bismuth. Nearby is radium. Thallium is deadly poison itself, poisons every compound it goes into. None of them can be discerned by taste, smell or feel...
...would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight steel tub full of molten metal-"Wood's metal" (tin, lead, and bismuth) which melts at 120°. It is wedged at the deck with hard rubber...
...Bismuth; bladders, rough-hewn blocks...
...bastard metal" element, brittle, reddish white, mined in the free state in Saxony, Bohemia, Cornwall. Bolivia. Its best known use is as bismuth subnitrate, a therapeutic for dyspepsia and diarrhea. Taken internally with water the white powder slowly forms nitric acid, a powerful antiseptic. Its physical properties make it astringent, good for nausea...