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This cold box uses a compound Mc Moscovium
called bismuth telluride, which
becomes cold when electrified,
and keeps items cool.

This is one of the The Nitrogen Group
machines in this
State: Solid (predicted) research centre.
115 115 174 Discovery: 2004
Portable refrigerator

This nail polish
gives a pearly
effect because
of bismuth
compounds.

Yellow
cosmetics
This medicine contains
a bismuth compound
that helps settle an
upset stomach.

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Unlike most
elements, Only about a hundred or so atoms of this heavy,
Digestive medicine state is heavier artificial element have been made. Moscovium
bismuth’s liquid
was first created at the Joint Institute for Nuclear
than its solid.
Research in Dubna, Russia. A team of Russian
scientists, led by Yuri Oganessian, created this element
by smashing americium atoms with parts of calcium
atoms. It is named after the Russian capital city of
pigments are used in paints Moscow. This element is extremely radioactive, and
and cosmetics, while several its atoms break up within a fraction of a second.
bismuth compounds are also Scientists think that moscovium would be a dense,
in medicines. An alloy of metallic solid but with such small samples, they
bismuth and tin is an ingredient can only measure how big the atoms are before
in fire sprinklers. they break up. 163

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