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She suspected the presence of an even more powerful element. MARIE-NOELLE HIMBERT: Here, Po, Polonium is the first element that they discovered. CHRIS PACKHAM: It’s remarkable, isn’t it?

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Oxygen, of course, is a gas, polonium a metal, and the in-between elements, sulfur, selenium and tellurium, are all solids that show increasing metallic properties. In fact, tellurium (Te), which ...

The Alfa-class submarine, developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, was an innovative but problematic vessel. Its ...

Marie Curie, an emblematic figure in the world of science, has left an indelible mark on the fabric of physics and chemistry.

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Not only was the phenomenon itself discovered by Becquerel, but other landmark achievements in the field included the isolation of the radioactive elements polonium and radium by the Curies ...

In the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018.