Bismuth Crystals.

[lauq1]

Hard to imagine that this is all just 1 element

[EnhanceTheTruth]

@lauq1 Its technically not. Its 99.99% Bismuth, which is as good as it gets. But its still not that hard to obtain. Its only about $20 for a whole pound of it.

[zbrooo]

@lauq1 It's not one element because there is a bismuth oxide tarnish on the crystal which gives it that iridescent shine.

[squee3333]

"there are no 2 alike as each one is different"

..REALLY?

[jarblewarble]

Why do these crystals look like microchips?

[VicTheMouth]

It's amazing how bismuth is good and lead, the element just before it on the periodic table, is dangerous.

[9hello123]

@VicTheMouth ...why?

[VicTheMouth]

@9hello123 what exactly are you asking about?

[9hello123]

@VicTheMouth Why is that amazing?

[VicTheMouth]

@9hello123 Well, lead and polonium are pretty toxic elements, but bismuth is really not all that toxic. I think that's kind of amazing

[LoserD911]

can some on send me a picture or drawing of a bismuth atom? please,cant find one and its for my science..need it a.s.a.p

[jarblewarble]

They look like natural fractals.

[conoba]

Such a beutiful element,

[ActiveStorage]

so thats where ancients got their ideas for symbols

[Ashitakaandsan]

wtf? that's amazing

[Nomoreidsleft]

Looks like parts of a Borg cube.

[feuerwerksfreak]

nice

[rmfyaya]

haha there are no two alike as each one is different!? no shit! be a little more redundant next time

[cdl81596]

Would you be willing to sell? Im an extremely avid element collector, please? I would LOVE to add one of these beauties to my collection

[JuanLeTwnz]

Most awesome metal known to man.

[darksideofthebrick13]

alpha radiative DO NOT INGEST

[michaelrose93]

@darksideofthebrick13 Bismuth is so low on the radioactive scale that it could not even be proven until recently. Bismuth is one of the main components of Pepto-Bismol so even you have most likely ingested it. . .

If you get a Geiger counter, you can wince at each click of background alpha that passes, oh, and then test your Bismuth while you're at it - nothing

[vmelkon]

@michaelrose93 "Bismuth is so low on the radioactive scale that it could not even be proven until recently"

How was it proven?

[michaelrose93]

@vmelkon It was proven in 2003 at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in France. Alpha particles are everywhere. If you have a counter, they come about every 3-15 seconds. The Bismuth was put in a special chamber to isolate it from the ambient alpha strikes. Very sensitive equipment was included in the chamber to measure any emissions. The Bismuth released only 1 per hour. This means that the half-life of Bismuth is around 19,000,000,000,000,000,000 years (a long time)

[tattat44]

@michaelrose93

Full life is 13.66 trillion times the age of the universe, to put that in perspective.

[BlaCkJack36O]

@michaelrose93 19,000,000,000,000,000,000 years (a long time) no shit....

[burchified]

@darksideofthebrick13 They make Pepto-BISmol out of it....

[darksideofthebrick13]

@burchified well theres no BISmuth in pepto-BISmol

[michaelrose93]

@darksideofthebrick13 The active ingredient of Pepto-Bismol is bismuth subsalicylate - look it up on their official website. That's why it's such a hot color (orange-red). Don't you get it?!?! LOL! (It's harmless, really. . .)

[The5Dorks]

@michaelrose93 thats a bismuth salt. chemical acid salts have totally different effects on the body than the actual element. Salt is made of sodium and chlorine. Sodium is extremely reactive in water to the point that it will explode, and chlorine was used to kill people in WWII. Table salt has absolutely no effect on the body accept taste. neither does bismuth subsalicyalte. but, bismuth does. just as much as lead.

[michaelrose93]

@The5Dorks I also have a chemical background, and you are incorrect. If one were to make water out of Tritium, for example, it would remain radioactive, though we both know the properties of elemental hydrogen and oxygen (or tritium) are very different from their combination. Combining Bismuth into a salt form would have little effect upon it's radioactivity, which was the original point of the post. Bismuth may indeed be a toxin in elemental form, but NOT because of radioactivity.

[angryflan]

NOOB it's element 83 from the Periodic table! it's a metal!

[nocturnarboreal]

what's a noob? like noob saibot? i Am very ninja like with my cunning, fresh comments.

in all seriousness, do you use the word "pwned"???

[angryflan]

omfg you know mortal combat 3, Awesome guy you are, am i wrong?

well, no i haven't added the word pwned to my vocabulary, yet. i could but i preferr owned.

[BryanBeatsYouAll]

This is the stuff in Pepto Bismol.

It's the BIZ in Bismol.

[soadj28]

You know, Bismuth is actually radioactive, it just has such a large half-life that it's activity was discovered in theory before being discovered in the real world. On the order of billions of years.

[soadj28]

We're just getting to technicalities here though, as the half life is 1.9 x 1019 years, which is over a billion years older than the current accepted age of the universe. It's daughter element is an isotope of thallium, 205. It's only an alpha emitter and such an incredibly weak one at that, perfectly safe; but it just adds to this element's mystique.

It also happens to be the safest, least toxic metal known. Gallium is pretty safe as well.

[Choice777]

it's just slitly radoactie , so little that it isn't even considered radiaoctive "for real" :D check wikipedia

[szlamx]

They look like Aztec buildings.

[Airsofter1995]

Wow, beautyful :) How do you make them? Do you have a mold or something?

[texabyte]

actually you make them by melting bismuth and cooling it very very very slowly so it can form large crystals

[VeronicaBlush]

we should model cities after these

[anthonyr96]

0:32 best of all

[loly617]

i have one

[sandcastle136]

So if you put a magnet on those crystals, it would levitate, right?

[2344553]

Right? Wrong. Bismuth isn't magnetic.

[sandcastle136]

Right, because it is diamagnetic. Repels magnetic force.

[2344553]

No, sorry I was wrong Bismuth is repelled by magnetism according to wikipedia.

[acaciaxtract]

Right. According to Wikipedia. Wikipedia's always right.

[4orty5ive]

reminds me of the all-spark from transformers

[liquidgrain]

same here,at 34 there was one that looked like a dead star

[5lug]

nice

[OfficeThug]

They got Bismuth to crystallize, that's pretty damn neat right there.

Of course what the conditions are to get Bismuth to form crystalline structures, I don't know, but damn is it pretty.

[OneScribe]

It forms crystals as it cools. Trick is to take a tiny bar of bismuth as a seed and use something with an electronic temp control to hold the metal right at the melting point. You don't so much draw a crystal as you would with quartz, but allow it to drop just below the melting point after you touch your "seed" to the surface. As it cools, it will form a crystal in the molten metal, so knowing when to pull the formed crystal out is the trick. kskt4 is an expert at it.

[RyuDarragh]

astornium, Bismuth can be melted on your stove in a pot you might cook in. It melts at about 230 degrees. Once melted, allow it to cool a bit. The crystals grow in the cooling metal. The trick is, you have to remove it before it completely cools. What kskt4 has you might not have is a talent for knowing *when* and how much to melt in a given batch and other knowledge of the kind only experience brings.

[sickpigrecords]

sorry what u drink it ?????????????????????

[nosiriwonthaveapples]

pepto bismol. you know it.

[sickpigrecords]

duhhhh i didnt even think crazy

[xXKariBananaXx]

They look like microchips.

[fuckitsgay]

yh i thought that

[orlyyarlynowai]

FUCK YEAH BISMUTH!!

[beendoodle]

FUCK YEAH BITMUTH!!!!

[bluebrain101]

cunt!

[astornium]

how'd u get them in that shape?

[LostRevelation]

This is some serious bismuth, bitches. God damn.

[atomic7732]

WoOOW! 00 __ -falls on floor-

[eskimofo89]

WHERE'S MY MOTHERFUCKING BISMUTH AT?!! bismuth, godman, I need my MOTHERFUCKING BISMUTH!!!!

[Freischuetzdx]

FUCK YEAH BISMUTH!

[damcorp]

i dont get it how didi it grow?

[audioslavelover]

ooh! Pretty!

[mercedesbent]

Check it out! I went to the toilet for a shit... and guess what came out man?????.....FUCKIN HUGE BISMUTH CRYSTALS!!!!!! Made my fuckin arse sore , I can tell yer!!!!!!

[eskimofo89]

OH SHIT you have some bismuth on your chin dude, fuckin BISMUTH WHORE

[Edgehead1132]

LOOK AT THAT FUCKING BISMUTH

[Arycama]

Fuck yeah bismuth!!! Shit yeah, fucking breadsticks, bismuth is the way to go.

[eskimofo89]

yeah i know, those fucking breadsticks man

[10cdgawg]

Bismuth, Fuck YEAH! Damn just look at those crystals! You know you want some of that shit. It blue and purple and yellow and all kind of shit, DAMN. Bismuth all UP in this bitch!

[SapinVert]

FUCK YEAH BISMUTH

[leviterande]

bismuth is just a very very special material man, firs it is light, very high diamagnetic that means it repell easily magnetic fields, and maybe earths to!! (if bismuth somehow got very concentrated) how much does it cost I wish I have some pieces of this magical material, i never ever touched it!

[involucre]

FUCK YEAH BISMUTH

it's MAGIC!

[JeRKTheLemming]

Fuck yeah bismuth

[hivebrain]

I love bismuth so much I want to eat it.

[bleachworthy]

beauty of that is, you could eat it. it's the least toxic of all metals.

[derjew]

i realy need to get some more bismuth.