Polonium is used in very small quantities in some industrial applications Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in ...
Little did scientists Marie and Pierre Curie suspect, when they discovered polonium in 1898, that the radioactive element would go on to have one of the darkest and most intriguing histories of any ...
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This week's element is polonium, which has the symbol Po and the atomic number 84. Named in 1898 to help publicise Poland's lack of freedom at that time, polonium is the first element whose name was ...
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A Swiss forensic report of the exhumed remains of ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today suggests polonium poisoning may have been the cause of death – but what is polonium, and why is it so deadly ...
Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in London. He was poisoned by a "major dose" of the radioactive substance ...