A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Bismuth in bismuth oxide, Tintic Mine, Utah |
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| Description | Bismuth is an ore of the element bismuth (Bi). Much of the poor quality bismuth specimens are artificially regrown to produce interestingly shaped hopper-like bismuth specimens. Bismuth has a very interesting property: similar to water, instead of contracting when it solidifies (like most other matter), it expands. This, and the fact that it is very diamagnetic, give it many uses in the electronic field. The samples shown are quite small; the largest is 2 mm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Utah. Tintic Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-26. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #24. |
| Key words | bismuth, bismuth oxide, Utah |
| Tech details | 159 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 893 |
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