Bismuth was also the instrument of alchemy fraud in the London Stock Exchange — in the 1860s, a Hungarian refugee named Nicholas Papaffy convinced a large ... in the form of crystals with ...

and the unusual shape of its crystals. The unexpected diamagnetism is no exception. "Even though bismuth has the unpaired ...

They mention that crystals of bismuth and antimony have not yet been studied. For some time I have been engaged on an investigation of the thermal expansion of bismuth crystals from ordinary ...