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GASEOUS bismuth hydride was first prepared by Paneth (Ber., 1918, 51, 1704), who obtained it by treating an alloy of magnesium and thorium C or radium C with 0.2 normal hydrochloric sulphuric acid. He afterwards (ibid. p. 1728) prepared somewhat larger quantities of the gas by the action of either of the above acids (but of four times normal strength) upon an alloy of bismuth and magnesium, carrying out the reaction in a heated iron crucible and in a stream of hydrogen. A mirror of bismuth was obtained when the issuing gas was heated as it passed through a glass tube. The gas was, however, never obtained in large quantities, and we have endeavoured to make a considerable amount of this hydride and from this substance to isolate the silver bismuthide, analogous to silver antimonide (vide Weeks, Chem. News, 1923, 127, 319; Weeks and Lloyd, ibid. p. 362).
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WEEKS, E., DRUCE, J. Bismuth Trihydride and Silver Bismuthide. Nature 116, 710 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116710a0
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