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  Bismuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bismuth oxychloride is extensively used in cosmetics and bismuth subnitrate and subcarbonate are used in medicine.
Bismuth subnitrate is a component of glazes that produces an iridescent luster finish.
Bismuth produced in the United States is obtained as a by-product of copper, gold, silver, tin and especially lead ore processing.
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 Bismuth (UK PID)
Bismuth subnitrate and carbonate are used in surgical dressings and bismuth chelate (tripotassium dicitratobismuthate) is used in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
Toxicity Bismuth toxicity is associated primarily with exposure to bismuth salts, notably the ingestion of bismuth chelate.
Bismuth subsalicylate toxicity as a cause of prolonged encephalopathy with myoclonus.
www.intox.org /databank/documents/chemical/bismuth/ukpid49.htm   (5516 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bismuth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bismuth subsalicylate is a pink liquid used as a medicine to treat diarrhea and other temporary discomforts of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract.
Bismuth is sometimes used in the production of shotgun slugs.
Bismuth (New Latin bisemutum from German Wismuth, perhaps from weisse Masse, "white mass") was confused in early times with tin and lead due to its resemblance to those elements.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bismuth   (4054 words)

  
 Bismuth (Bi)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bismuth is about as rare as silver and ranks about 73rd in natural abundance among the elements in the crust of the earth.
Bismuth is the most diamagnetic of all metals and is a poor conductor of heat and electricity, Its electrical resistance is further increased in a magnetic field and, therefore, is used in instruments for measuring the strength of such fields.
Bismuth oxychloride is used widely in cosmetics; bismuth subnitrate is used in medicine.
www.bayerus.com /msms/fun/pages/periodic/bismuth/index.html   (180 words)

  
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Bismuth subgallate, bismuth subnitrate, and bismuth subsalicylate, although chemically similar, are not chemically identical and, therefore, may not exert the same intended action.
The comment explained that bismuth subnitrate has been used as an antidiarrheal for over 200 years and that calcium hydroxide, an antacid and astringent, extends the shelf life of the product by neutralizing the acid residue that leaches from the bismuth subnitrate into the supernatant liquid over a long-standing period.
The panel classified bismuth subnitrate in category III because of insufficient effectiveness data and stated that it should not be used in infants under 2 years of age because of the risk of methemoglobinemia (40 FR 12902 at 12930).
www.fda.gov /cder/otcmonographs/Antidiarrheal/antidiarrheal_FM_20030417.htm   (12582 words)

  
 BISMUTH - Online Information article about BISMUTH
Bismuth tetroxide, Bi2O4„sometimes termed bismuth bismuthate, is obtained by melting bismuth,ttioxide with potash, or by igniting bismuth trioxide with potash and potassium chlorate.
Bismuth pentoxide, Bi2C5, is obtained by heating bismuthic acid, HBiO3, to530° C.; this acid (in the form of its salts) being the product of the continued oxidation of an alkaline solution of bismuth trioxide.
Bismuth sulphate, Bi2(SO4)3, is obtained as a white powder by dissolving the metal or sulphide in concentrated sulphuric acid.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BISMUTH.html   (3101 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Bismuth Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bismuth subsalicylate is a bright pink liquid used as an antidiarrheal.
In the early 1990s, research began on the evaluation of bismuth as a nontoxic replacement for lead in such uses as ceramic glazes, fishing sinkers, food processing equipment, free-machining brasses for plumbing applications, lubricating greases, and shot for waterfowl hunting.
Bismuth produced in the United States is obtained as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, silver, tin and especially lead ore processing.
www.ipedia.com /bismuth.html   (548 words)

  
 Bismuth
Bismuth is the heaviest stable element and is a brittle metal with a pinkish hue with an iridescent tarnish.
Bismuth alloys have low-melting temperature and are widely used for fire detection and suppression system safety devices.
Bismuth was probably unknown to the Greeks and Romans, but during the middle ages it became quite familiar, notwithstanding its frequent confusion with other metals.
www.rare-earth-magnets.com /magnet_university/bismuth.htm   (467 words)

  
 Pharmaceutical preparation for treating hemorrhoids and anal fissures - Patent 4118480
For example, bismuth suboxylate could be used but it is so unstable that when you mix it into the other ingredients of the inventive pharmaceutical preparation, it causes the preparation to deteriorate and cause slow leaks of gas.
However, bismuth subgallate has a brownish color that stains, and that is objectionable so the bismuth subnitrate is preferred because it is perfectly white and does not stain.
Bismuth compounds of this type have a very tenacious effect to cause ointment to adhere to slippery tissues to which it is applied.
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 Bismuth compounds for the treatment and prevention of mucositis - US Patent 6565895   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In a preferred embodiment, the bismuth compound is an organic or inorganic salt such as, bismuth subsalicylate, bismuth subgallate, bismuth aluminate, bismuth citrate, bismuth subcitrate, bismuth carbonate, bismuth subcarbonate, tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate, bismuth nitrate, bismuth subnitrate, bismuth tartrate and mixtures thereof, preferably, bismuth subsalicylate and bismuth subgallate.
The method of claim 3 wherein the bismuth salt is a mixed salt of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent and an antioxidant or a free radical scavenger.
In another preferred embodiment, the bismuth compound is the salt of an amino acid or a peptide, preferably an antimicrobial peptide (e.g., maganin, cecoropin and iseganin).
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 Nat' Academies Press, Mineral Tolerance of Domestic Animals (1980)
Bismuth occurs naturally as a metal, oxide, sulfide, and carbonate and until about 1775 was often confused with tin and lead.
Additional bismuth compounds, bismuth aluminate, bismuth oxide, bismuth subnitrate, bismuth subgallate, and bismuth tannate have been and/or continue to be used as gastrointestinal protec- tives at levels of 0.3 to 2 g for dogs and up to 15 to 30 g for horses and cattle.
Bismuth gradually induces nephrotoxicity characterized by the formation of intranuclear inclusion bodies in renal tubular epi- thelium and the persistence of these inclusions for perhaps the life of the host.
www.nap.edu /openbook/0309030226/html/60.html   (2512 words)

  
 Bismuth
Inorganic bismuth salts are poorly soluble in water: solubility is influenced by the acidity of the medium and the presence of certain compounds with (hydr)oxy or sulfhydryl groups.
The analysis of bismuth in biological material is not standardised and is subject to large variation; it is difficult to compare data from different studies, and older data should be approached with caution.
Bismuth encephalopathy occurred in France as an epidemic of toxicity and was associated with the intake of inorganic salts including bismuth subnitrate, subcarbonate and subgallate.
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 Principal Metals-Bismuth
Bismuth is the most diamagnetic of all metals, and the thermal conductivity is lower than any metal, except mercury.
When bismuth is heated in air it burns with a blue flame, forming yellow fumes of the oxide.
Bismuth subnitrate and subcarbonate are used in medicine.
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 United States Patent Application: 0050035177
According to the 1936 National Formulary, elixir of bismuth is produced by diluting a quantity of glycerite of bismuth and adding further quantities of glycerin and aromatic elixirs as preservative agents.
After a standing period of approximately 15 minutes to allow operation of the acidic solution on the bismuth subnitrate 25, a further quantity of 26.5 liters of distilled water is added to dilute the volatile solution to a more safely manageable mixture.
The resulting density value may then be used to calculate the strength of the active ingredient 44--in the present case bismuth trioxide, which strength may be used in the second phase 11 of manufacture to effect an accurate dilution of the glycerite of bismuth to an elixir of bismuth 18.
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The internal teat-sealer Orbeseal® consists of 65% bismuth subnitrate and the remaining 35% are paraffin wax, aluminium-hydroxid-distearat and siliciumoxid.
Inorganic bismuth compounds including bismuth subnitrate are used orally in veterinary and human medicine for their antiacid action and for their mild adstringent action in gastrointestinal disorders (EMEA 1999).
The levels of bismuth in the blood and urine in these patients were between 10 and 100 times as high as those in patients who had taken the same treatment without ill effect (Loiseau, 1976).
orgprints.org /5029/01/Notz-2005-SAFO-Orbeseal-proceeding.doc   (848 words)

  
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It is no wonder that bismuth salts have been widely used since antiquity and still hold a secure place in medicinal therapy today.
Another factor was the increased use of bismuth to treat the increasing number of colostomy patients.
The average dose of bismuth subsalicylate contained in Pepto-Bismol has a dose of of salicylate almost equal to that of an aspirin once the compound dissociates in the stomach.
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 Formulation practical - Suspensions.
Bismuth subnitrate suspensions were to be stabilised by employing potassium phosphate as the flocculating agent.
5g of bismuth subnitrate was weighed in weighing boats and transferred to 100ml measuring cylinders.
The appropriate suspending medium provided was added and the measuring cylinder was stoppered and shaken to disperse the bismuth subnitrate particles in the liquid medium.
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 Bismuth Autometallography: Protocol, Specificity, and Differentiation -- Danscher et al. 48 (11): 1503 -- Journal of ...
of accumulations of bismuth in mice exposed to bismuth subnitrate
Ross JF, Broadwell RD, Poston MR, Lawhorn GT (1994) Highest brain bismuth levels and neuropathology are adjacent to fenestrated blood vessels in mouse brain after intraperitoneal dosing of bismuth subnitrate.
Ross JF, Switzer RC, Poston MR, Lawhorn GT (1996) Distribution of bismuth in the brain after intraperitoneal dosing of bismuth subnitrate in mice: implications for routes of entry of xenobiotic metals into the brain.
www.jhc.org /cgi/content/full/48/11/1503   (3404 words)

  
 OMICRON : Bismuth Subnitrate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Bismuth Subnitrate is a white, odourless or almost odourless, tasteless and micro-cryistalline powder, containing 71 to 75 % of Bismuth.
Bismuth Subnitrate is more astringent than other Bismuth salts.
Internally, Bismuth Subnitrate was formely used as an antiacid.
www.omicron.es /productos/subnitrato/subnitrate.html   (67 words)

  
 Government and academic resources on BISMUTH SUBNITRATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bismuth: Bismuth oxychloride is used extensively in cosmetics.
The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS): Bismuth magistery; Bismuth subnitrate; Bismuth subnitricum; Bismuth White; Blanc de fard; CI 77169; CI Pigment White 17.
Haz-Map: Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Agents:...potassium nitrate, bismuth nitrate, bismuth subnitrate, ethyl nitrite, isoamyl nitrite, sodium nitrite, potassium nitrite, and isobutyl nitrite;
drugs.mongabay.com /ingredients/BISMUTH_SUBNITRATE.html   (532 words)

  
 Simultaneous yellow smoke and yellow flame composition containing bismuth subnitrate - Patent 4184901
The composition is comprised of between 5 and 30 percent of a fuel which is either magnesium or silicon, between 65 and 85 percent of bismuth subnitrate and between 5 and 13 percent of an epoxy binder.
The yellow smoke/yellow flame compositions of the present invention are comprised essentially of between 5 and 30 percent of a fuel, which is either magnesium or silicon, between 65 and 85 percent of bismuth subnitrate and between 5 and 13 percent of an epoxy binder.
Consequently, all the compositions of the present invention use bismuth subnitrate.
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 Physiology of sulfide in the rat colon: use of bismuth to assess colonic sulfide production -- Levitt et al. 92 (4): ...
Rats ingesting bismuth subnitrate excreted 350 ± 18 µmol/day of
for 2, 4, or 24 h in the presence or absence of bismuth subnitrate.
The fecal sulfide concentration of bismuth subnitrate-treated animals averaged 23 ± 1.5 µmol/g.
jap.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/92/4/1655   (4338 words)

  
 NEJM -- Antibacterial Treatment of Gastric Ulcers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
or bismuth subnitrate were increased by a factor of 5.
Bismuth subsalicylate in the treatment of H2 blocker resistant duodenal ulcers: role of Helicobacter pylori.
A comparison of colloidal bismuth subcitrate tablets and ranitidine in the treatment of chronic duodenal ulcers.
content.nejm.org /cgi/content/full/333/3/190   (1073 words)

  
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The severity of the disorder appeared to be independent of dose and duration of therapy and was fatal to patients who continued the use of the Bismuth compounds.
Symptoms of chronic Bismuth toxicity in humans consists of decreased appetite, weakness, rheumatic pain, diarrhea, fever, metal line on the gums, foul breath, gingivitis and dermatitis.
Bismuth does pass into the amniotic fluid and into the fetus.
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 bismuth
In early times bismuth was confused with tin and lead.
Much of the bismuth produced in the U.S. is.obtained as a by-product in refining lead, copper, tin, silver, and gold ores.
Forty one isotopes and isomers of bismuth are known.
www.speclab.com /elements/bismuth.htm   (596 words)

  
 Bismuth Oxide, Bismuth Oxychloride, Bismuth Nitrate, Bismuth Subnitrate, Bismuth Subgallate, India
Bismuth Oxide, Bismuth Oxychloride, Bismuth Nitrate, Bismuth Subnitrate, Bismuth Subgallate, India
The company was established in 1995 for manufacturing newer drugs, speciality chemicals and intermediates for the pharmaceutical industries.
Newer drugs like Bronopol, Phenylmercuric acetate, Phenylmercuric nitrate, intermediates like Ninhydrin and speciality chemicals like salts of Bismuth, Cadmium, Iodine and Mercury were developed in the company's RandD laboratories under the guidance of Mr.
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 Bismuth Stain Kit for Enhancing Contrast Technical Data Sheet
The mixture is cleared after 6-8ml of solution A is added; and after the addition of all of solution A, all the Bismuth is chelated.
Thin sections on grids are stained under cover for 3 minutes by immersion in the Bismuth Subnitrate chelated above, and then rinsed with distilled water.
Bismuth Stain Kits for Enhancing Contrast are available online from the EMS Catalog.
www.emsdiasum.com /microscopy/technical/datasheet/11434.aspx   (148 words)

  
 Knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
* Many bismuth alloys have low melting points and are widely used for fire detection and suppression system safety devices.
* Bismuth is finding use as a catalyst for making acrylic fibers.
* Bismuth subnitrate is a component of glazes that produces an iridescent luster finish.
www.logganalyse.com /knowledge/print.php?type=A&item_id=36   (485 words)

  
 Bismuth compounds for the treatment and prevention of mucositis
The development reIates to the unexpected finding thаt bismuth-containing compounds аre effectual in the treatment of oraI mucositis in a mammaI.
Thus, the development reIates, in single aspect to a approach of treаting oraI mucositis comprising аdministering an effectual quantity of a pharmaceuticaIIy satisfactory bismuth-containing соmроund, suсh as a bismuth saIt оr bismuth compIex.
In a рreferred embоdiment, the bismuth соmроund is an оrganiс оr inorganic saIt suсh as, bismuth subsalicylate, bismuth subgallate, bismuth aluminate, bismuth citrate, bismuth subcitrate, bismuth carbonate, bismuth subcarbonate, tripotassium dicitrato bismuthate, bismuth nitrate, bismuth subnitrate, bismuth tartrate and mixtures of thаt, rather, bismuth subsalicylate and bismuth subgallate.
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 Surface Antigen Exposure by Bismuth Dimercaprol Suppression of Klebsiella pneumoniae Capsular Polysaccharide -- ...
Surface Antigen Exposure by Bismuth Dimercaprol Suppression of Klebsiella pneumoniae Capsular Polysaccharide -- Domenico et al.
Bismuth has been shown to repress the expression of CPS in bacteria (10, 11).
Bismuth thiols are novel among biocides with respect to CPS inhibition.
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