Bismuth Authentic Crystal Custom Museum Display

This custom museum display showcases an Authentic Bismuth Crystal, the longest known half-life of any radioisotope - the universe is about 1.38?1010 years old (time from the big bang to the present), the half-life of bismuth (the only naturally-occurring isotope) is approximately a billion (10^9) times the age of the universe.

Bismuth is a brittle metal with a white, silver-pink hue, often with an iridescent oxide tarnish showing many colors from yellow to blue. The spiral, stair-stepped structure of bismuth crystals is the result of a higher growth rate around the outside edges than on the inside edges. The variations in the thickness of the oxide layer that forms on the surface of t...