Wai In a series of bronze alloys containing tin \fi ... bismuth and zinc; bismuth and antimony; lead and tin, and lead and antimony. Therefore these alloys should take the sharp outline of molds ...

Studies showed that it was used as early as the sixteenth century by the Incas, who mixed it with tin to prepare bismuth bronze for knives 1. Bismuth was also the instrument of alchemy fraud in ...

[Robin] starts with a demonstration of just how far a little bismuth depresses the melting point of tin solder — to about 135°. That allows plenty of time to work, and freeing leads from pads ...