Bismuth crystals mirror gentle in all colors of the rainbow
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Extremely-thin flakes of bismuth show mysterious magnetic properties – which might assist the tender, iridescent metallic grow to be a marvel materials for making greener electronics.
“Frankly, I’m still waking up at night because I wonder: what is at play here?” says Guillaume Gervais at McGill College in Montreal, Canada.
Researchers have suspected that very skinny flakes of bismuth might have uncommon bodily properties, as different ultra-thin supplies like carbon-based graphene do. However as a result of bismuth is so…