Polonium (Po) Fun Facts
"The Radioactive Assassin, an intensely radioactive and toxic villain, used in a real-life assassination."
The true essence of Polonium (Po) on the molecular frontier.
Polonium is a rare, highly radioactive, silvery-gray metalloid.
Polonium is found in an anti-static brush for cleaning camera lenses or records.
Polonium was used to assassinate former spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
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It was discovered by Marie Curie and was named after her native country, Poland, which at the time was not an independent nation.
Polonium is an extremely rare and intensely radioactive element. On a weight-for-weight basis, polonium-210 is about 250 billion times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide.
It was used as the trigger in early atomic bombs.
Tiny amounts of polonium were used in anti-static brushes to eliminate static cling on photographic film and records by ionizing the air.
The assassination of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 was carried out using polonium-210.