When emptying a bucket containing water or lava, the contents will be placed, but the bucket disappears from the inventory.
When picking up water or lava, the bucket will not disappear if it was in a stack when picking up, but does disappear if it is a single bucket.
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We're tracking this issue in MC-275757, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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Duplicates MC-275757 which has been fixed in a future update 🙂