Polonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Po and atomic number 84. A rare and highly radioactive metal (although sometimes classified as a metalloid)...
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Polonium-210 (210Po, Po-210, historically radium F) is an isotope of polonium. It undergoes alpha decay to stable 206Pb with a half-life of 138.376 days...
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naturally-occurring isotope of polonium and is the most common isotope of polonium. It is also the most easily synthesized polonium isotope. 209Po, which does...
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Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko (redirect from Polonium Cocktail)
He died on 23 November, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome. Litvinenko's allegations about misdeeds...
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sulfur (S), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), and the radioactive elements polonium (Po) and livermorium (Lv). Often, oxygen is treated separately from the...
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Livermorium (redirect from Eka-Polonium)
chalcogen polonium. Livermorium is calculated to have some similar properties to its lighter homologues (oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium), and...
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Polonium monoxide (also known as polonium(II) oxide) is a chemical compound with the formula PoO. It is one of three oxides of polonium, the other two...
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Polonium(IV) sulfate is an inorganic compound, a salt of polonium and the sulfate anion with the chemical formula of Po(SO4)2. As anhydrous, it forms...
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Polonium trioxide (also known as polonium(VI) oxide) is a chemical compound with the formula PoO3. It is one of three oxides of polonium, the other two...
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Polonium bromide may refer to: Polonium(II) bromide (polonium dibromide), PoBr2 Polonium(IV) bromide (polonium tetrabromide), PoBr4 This set index article...
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Polonium tetrabromide, is a bromide of polonium, with the chemical formula PoBr4. Polonium tetrabromide can be formed by the direct reaction of bromine...
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Paris on 17 March 1956 from an acute leukemia linked to her exposure to polonium and X-rays. Irène was born in Paris, France, on 12 September 1897 and was...
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Polonium hydride (also known as polonium dihydride, hydrogen polonide, or polane) is a chemical compound with the formula PoH2. It is a liquid at room...
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level of polonium inside his body when he died. The investigation ruled out HIV or any other infectious disease as a cause of death. The polonium was found...
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Polonium dioxide (also known as polonium(IV) oxide) is a chemical compound with the formula PoO2. It is one of three oxides of polonium, the other two...
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Polonium diiodide is a binary inorganic compound of polonium metal and iodine with the chemical formula PoI2. "WebElements Periodic Table » Polonium »...
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Pleochroic halo (redirect from Polonium halos)
Uranium-238 follows a sequence of decay through thorium, radium, radon, polonium, and lead. These are the alpha-emitting isotopes in the sequence. (Because...
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"Postum" as a code name for polonium. Use of polonium for the neutron initiator was proposed in 1944 by Edward Condon, although polonium as an initiator was mentioned...
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Polonium dibromide (also known as polonium(II) bromide) is a chemical compound with the formula PoBr2. This salt is a purple-brown crystalline solid at...
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Polonium hexafluoride (PoF6) is a possible chemical compound of polonium and fluorine and one of the seventeen known binary hexafluorides. The synthesis...
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Polonium sulfide is an inorganic compound of polonium and sulfur with the chemical formula PoS. The compound is radioactive and forms black crystals....
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Polonium tetrachloride (also known as polonium(IV) chloride) is a chemical compound with the formula PoCl4. The salt is a hygroscopic bright yellow crystalline...
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Polonium tetranitrate is an inorganic compound, a salt of polonium and nitric acid with the chemical formula Po(NO3)4. The compound is radioactive, forms...
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The Dayton Project was a research and development project to produce polonium during World War II, as part of the larger Manhattan Project to build the...
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won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes...
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at Hamburg flat used by Kovtun. According to German investigators, the polonium traces were found on a couch where Kovtun is believed to have slept at...
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Polonium dichloride is a chemical compound of the radioactive metalloid, polonium and chlorine. Its chemical formula is PoCl2. It is an ionic salt. Polonium...
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the Dayton Project, a branch of the larger Manhattan Project, to develop polonium triggers used in early atomic bombs. With the decline of heavy manufacturing...
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reference samples which were known to be polonium-free, suggesting that Arafat could have died of polonium poisoning. On 27 November 2012, three teams...
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