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Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by maveric149. Elementbox converted 12:25, 10 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bismuth&oldid=18150535 21:13, 4 July 2005]).

Re: Disputed

When it says "Among the heavy metals, it is the heaviest and the only non-toxic".

I think it means the "heaviest AND ALSO non-toxic" of metals.

Gold is heavy but has an atomic number of 79 and Bismuth has an atomic number of 83, which means (again...) that bismuth is the heaviest of non-toxic metals.

Re: Re: Disputed

OK. Gold IS a toxic heavy metal. The only problem is it is hard

to find and make compounds of gold that can be assimilated by

the body.

The word 'heavy' in this context usually refers to the atomic

number, not the density of the element. Elements like Seaborgium

are referred to a 'Superheavy' It might be more meaningful to use

the term 'heaviest nucleii', although polonium might be considered

here as a metal which is heavier, but it it not stable so the

radioactivity might kill someone before heavy metal poisoning does.

Tungsten is a heavy metal, but is also not toxic (at least not much). I don't know about the others. Most of the others are

kind of rare so although they are heavy metal poisons it would

be hard to encounter toxic compounds.

GA Reassessment

Disruptive editing and poorly sourced content from IP 206.72.231.194 on 1 July 2024.

My IP address was unblocked in mid-August. Just letting you know that there was this IP address called 206.72.231.194 adding poorly sourced abundance ranks in the occurrence section. This page should been protected for a few months. If my IP address was unblocked, I could’ve requested semi-protection for page “Bismuth” for about a month. My IP address was blocked at that time, so I couldn’t request semi-protection. It turned out that the problem was solved without semi-protection. 206.72.231.194 Only made two edits on page “Bismuth”. 2603:8080:D03:89D4:74A2:9D9F:8701:DBDB (talk) 20:51, 2 September 2024 (UTC)