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

铜片可以把热量迅速地传递到碲化铋上或从碲化铋上导出，这样就能保持气温差。

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

即使是超稳定的铋， 它的半衰期也比宇宙年龄还长。机翻

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

更糟糕的是，汞和铋等现有疗法往好里说是不可靠的，往坏里说可能有害。机翻

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

它们之所以能起作是因为某些材料，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。

5.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.

第三目标是高效的设计，它涉及到把纳米级的碲化铋夹在两片铜薄片之间然后把位于上方的薄片（这薄片被覆盖上了吸收光线的氧化物）和碲化铋封入一内。

6.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。 即使是超稳定的铋， 它的半衰期也比宇宙年龄还长。机翻

7.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.

日本研究中心使粒子加速器一束原子序数为 30 的锌离子轰击一束原子序数为 83 的铋。机翻

8.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。