Bismuth crystals reflect light in all the colors of the rainbow
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Bismuth flakes are very thin and mysterious magnetic properties – could help make the soft, iridescent metal a wonderful material for greener electronics.
“Honestly, I’m still waking up at night wondering: What’s at stake here?” he says William Gervais at McGill University in Montreal (Canada).
Researchers have suspected that very thin flakes of bismuth may have unusual physical properties, such as other ultrathin materials please carbon-based graphene do it But since bismuth is so…
