Does the reality of having a chronic illness ever just slap you in the face? Its like wow I’ll never be able to do that thing that I’ve always wanted to do.
Bismuth (Bi) is a naturally occurring element with an atomic number of 83, chemically, it resembles arsenic and antimony.
As you can see in the image, bismuth crystals are quite obviously angular- this is because the edges of the rhombohedral crystal structure are more energetically favourable positions than the interior of the structure. As a result, molecules continually ‘build on’ the edges but don’t fill in the centre when crystallising. The higher rate of growth on the edges forms a crystal which appears to be partially hollowed out in a rectangular-spiral stair step design.