Mines in the area have produced vast quantities of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, bismuth, and manganese.
The bullets are now being manufactured with a bismuth alloy.
None of the patients had been treated with bismuth preparations.
Dynamics and coherent control of high-amplitude optical phonons in bismuth.
Various tests eliminated the possibility of the unknown element being thorium, radium, lead, bismuth, or thallium.
Bismuth bronzes and brasses are more malleable, thermally conductive, and polish better than regular brasses.
Bismuth sulfide is a highly insoluble black salt, and the discoloration seen is temporary and harmless.
Other metals (like bismuth, selenium, tellurium, and many others) are traded on market demand and the buyers/sellers themselves set the price.