The copper plates conducted heat rapidly to and from the bismuth telluride, thus maintaining the temperature difference.

可以热量迅速地传递碲化铋上或从碲化铋上导出，这样就能保持气温差。

Bismuth is interesting because it is the heaviest element that is not radioactive.

铋很有趣， 因为它最重的非放射性元素。

Bismuth subsalicylate is a salicylate, or more colloquially known as aspirin.

次水杨酸铋一种水杨酸盐，或者更通俗的称呼：阿司匹林。

Even ultra stable bismuth, with it's half life longer than the age of the universe.

即使超稳定的铋， 它的半衰期也比宇宙年龄还长。

Worse still, existing treatments like mercury and bismuth were considered unreliable at best and potentially harmful at worst.

更糟糕的，汞和铋等现有疗法往好里说不可靠的，往坏里说可能有害。

They work because certain materials, such as bismuth telluride, generate an electrical potential difference within themselves if one part is hotter than another.

它们之所以能起作用因为某些材料，比如碲化铋，如果其中一部分比另一部分热，内部就会产生电位差。

Bismuth is pretty easy to get your hands on and has a low melting point, so you can actually try to make your own hopper crystals, if you're feeling adventurous.

铋相当容易获得，而且其熔点低，所以实际上如果你足够大胆，你可以尝试去制作属于自己的锥形晶。

The third objective, efficient design, involved sandwiching the nanostructured bismuth telluride between two copper plates and then enclosing the upper plate (the one coated with the light-absorbing oxides) and the bismuth telluride in a vacuum.

第三个目标高效的设计，它涉及米级的碲化铋夹在两薄之间然后位于上方的薄（这个薄被覆盖上了吸收光线的氧化物）和碲化铋封入一个真空内。

Well it's fairly simple, given enough time all radioactive elements would decay in to non radioactive forms. Even ultra stable bismuth, with it's half life longer than the age of the universe.

好吧，这很简单，只要有足够的时间，所有放射性元素都会衰变成非放射性形式。 即使超稳定的铋， 它的半衰期也比宇宙年龄还长。

Japanese research center that used a particle accelerator to bombard a bunch of bismuth – with atomic number 83 – with a beam of zinc ions – with atomic number 30.

日本研究中心使用粒子加速器用一束原子序数为 30 的锌离子轰击一束原子序数为 83 的铋。

Like the value that I place on corndogs, or Russian hiphop polka, or that girl who sat next to me in Algebra class who had skin like Alabaster and and eyes that shone like crystalline bismuth.

就像我对玉米热狗，俄罗斯嘻哈波尔卡，或者在我的代数课上坐在我旁边的那个女孩所赋予的价值一样，她的皮肤光洁雪白，眼睛像铋晶体一样闪闪发光。