You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Polonium, (element 84), was discovered in 1898 and named after Poland, ...
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?
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 ...
VLADIMIR Putin will be furious he didn’t conjure up an Israeli-style sabotage strike first, a former spymaster has said. The Russian dictator’s forces have employed sabotage in their ...
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.