This section is from the book "Essentials Of Materia Medica And Therapeutics", by Alfred Baring Garrod. Also available from Amazon: The Essentials Of Materia Medica And Therapeutics.
(BI. Eq.=210.) Metallic Bismuth. Appendix A.
Description. A pinkish white metal, occurring native, fusing readily, and crystallizing in cubes or octahedra; sp. gr. 9.8; soluble in nitric acid, precipitated by water: introduced only for the formation of the nitrate.
 
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