Did you know that Marie Curie, who discovered polonium, died after working for many years with radioactive substances?
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Information onpoloniumis not available as it is not separately identified in the overseas trade statistics.
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What exactly is the mechanism of control forpolonium210 in this factory and in factories like it?
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An extremely sophisticated control mechanism is operated by that plant to monitorpolonium210 and other emissions, such as lead and arsenic.
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Average emissions ofpolonium-210 have been well below the authorised limit.
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Polonium210 has a very short half-life, and decays very quickly; the procedure can therefore contain most of it.
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Half of thepoloniumdecays every 138 days due to natural processes.
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After very sophisticated laboratory tests, it was found to bepolonium210.
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They include lead, cadmium, arsenic and alsopolonium, which is radioactive.
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Poloniumwas found to be concentrated in three areas in that factory, which were then classified as "controlled areas".
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It is assumed that discharges ofpolonium-210 were occurring before this discovery but, because of its relatively short half-life, no build-up in the environment can have taken place.
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Poloniumis of natural origin.
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Applications ofpoloniumare few, and include heaters in space probes, antistatic devices, and sources of neutrons and alpha particles.
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Radon decays to lead-210, then to bismuth-210,polonium-210 and stabilizes with lead-206.
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The bulk of the elements in the periodic table, those to the left of a diagonal line drawn from boron topolonium, are metals.
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The inclusion of antimony,poloniumand astatine as metalloids has also been questioned.
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