Basic bismuth nitrate is a powdery solid that is white or yellowish. It is stable at room temperature and pressure, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute nitric acid and dilute hydrochloric acid. Basic bismuth nitrate has some thermal stability, but it decomposes at high temperatures to produce bismuth oxide and nitrogen oxides.

Basic bismuth nitrate is a versatile inorganic compound with various uses shown as below:

1. Pharmaceutical use: basic bismuth nitrate is used as a gastric mucosal protective drug in medicine, for the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer, diarrhea, enteritis and other diseases. It can form a protective film on the gastric mucosa, reduce the irritation of food to the gastric mucosa, and at the same time have an antibacterial effect.

2. Industrial uses: Basic bismuth nitrate is used in the manufacture of cosmetics, fluxes for enamels, and as a raw material in the pharmaceutical industry.

3. Analytical reagents and catalysts: In industry, basic bismuth nitrate is also used as analytical reagents and catalysts.

4. Raw materials for special materials: It is also used in the manufacture of certain special materials.