Polonium Synonyms

pə-lōnē-əm
A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. po
  2. atomic number 84

Words Related to Polonium

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Related:

  1. periodic-table
  2. radium
  3. thorium

Polonium Sentence Examples

  • After removing the uranium, it was found that the bismuth separated with a very active substance - polonium; this element was afterwards isolated by Marckwald, and proved to be identical with his radiotellurium; that the barium could be separated with another active substance - radium; whilst a third fraction, composed mainly of the rare earths (thorium, &c.), yielded to Debierne another radioactive element - actinium, which proved to be identical with the emanium of Giesel.

  • Examples include americium 241 used in smoke detectors and Polonium 210 used in dust detection and anti-static devices.

  • Their shape after to companies in required to excite elements polonium and radium.

  • Working together, Marie and her husband Pierre, discovered the chemical elements radium and polonium.

  • Marckwald (Ber., 1903, 36, p. 2662) showed that the Joachimsthal pitchblende yields tellurium and a minute quantity of the strongly radioactive polonium which is precipitated by bismuth (see Radioactivity).

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