For the Bismuth lab I worked with Natalie, Kazuha and Annika. We started with doing the research as normal and discovered the melting point of bismuth and also how the oxygen effects the different colors of the Bismuth when you are crystallizing it. Here is a link to our research. During this lab I noticed that the bottom of the Bismuth when it was in solid form was not crystallized like the top and I was curious to why. After talking to Andrew and doing some research I figured out that the answer to this question was the amount of oxygen that that is being exposed. To create the crystals we first had to melt the Bismuth. We did this by using a hot plate. After the Bismuth was completely melted we scrapped the extra stuff off the top and set aside to let cool. Because we wanted blue crystals it needed little oxygen so we tapped the table a few times very genitally and this helped the crystals form. For this lab we got the results we wanted the crystals looked really cool, but I did not contribute as much as I would have liked. I think that. Even know we did two sets of Bismuth with a group of four I and the work wasn't that hard I would have liked to been a bigger part of this experiment. I also think would be a really good idea to do some more research on the background of Bismuth. Looking forward I don't think that I will be exploring Bismuth that much more maybe I could make a piece of jewelry with some of the crystals we made or I think trying to get pink crystals using helium would be a really cool experiment, but other then that I would like to move on.
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