polonium

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• She discovered the element radium, and later polonium, near the end of the 19th century.

• Once the polonium had been recognized, police were able to trace the source of the poison to the Millennium hotel in Mayfair.

• That would be Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, the gal who discovered radioactive polonium.

• Did he understand that he would now have to live with a sword—not of Damocles but of polonium—hanging over his head?

• Polonium is also at the center of a major plot line currently playing out on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

• Was the Palestinian leader poisoned by radioactive polonium?

• One such reaction uses alpha particles emitted by polonium-210 (or some other alpha emitter) to bombard the element beryllium.

• Four successive alpha captures would give Polonium 203, not mercury.

• It is well known that Pierre and Marie Curie used this new-found radioactivity to identify the new elements polonium and radium.

• Polonium, named by Mme. Curie in honor of her native country, was the third radioactive element to be discovered.

• Her first discovery was that of the substance polonium—so named by Madame Curie after her native country, Poland.