Bismuth is sometimes used in pharmaceuticals or medicines. For instance, it’s an ingredient in Pepto-Bismol, as well as the 2004 reformulation of Kaopectate — two anti-diarrhea medicines.

It provides power to electrical equipment used on space missions, such as in the X-ray spectrometers in the ... Its compound bismuth subsalicylate is also the main active ingredient in Pepto ...