bismuth的词源

英文词源

bismuth (n.)

1660s, from obsolete German Bismuth, also Wismut, Wissmuth (early 17c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps a miner's contraction of wis mat "white mass," from Old High German hwiz "white." Latinized 1530 by Georgius Agricola (who may have been the first to recognize it as an element) as bisemutum. According to Klein, not from Arabic.

中文词源

bismuth：铋

来自古德语，bis , 词源同white, 白色的. muth, 词源同mass, 大块。指该金属白色块状特征。

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