In 2010, the US consumed 884 tonnes of it, the majority of which went into chemicals.
In 2010, the US consumed 884 tonnes of it, the majority of which went into chemicals. The Incas also used it, along with copper and tin, in a special bronze alloy for knives. It is one of the few elements where its liquid state is denser than its solid state, and it is also technically radioactive, though its only known primordial isotope has a half-life a billion times the estimated age of the universe. FTP, name this brittle metal that is removed from lead through the Betterton-Kroll Process with atomic number 83, denoted by the symbol Bi.
In 2010, the US consumed 884 tonnes of it, the majority of which went into chemicals.
Bismuth