Polonium - Periodic Table of Videos
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- Named after Poland, this element has a notorious reputation because of its use in atomic bombs and international murder allegations.
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I like the way he describes a nuclear melt down as "embarrassing" and radiation sickness as "unpleasant" lol
just a little info on the side, he was talking about the polonium that makes up most of natural's sources for polonium. there are different isotopes of polonium, though; some synthentic pollonium has a half life of nearly 3000 years, and another has a half life of only 300 nanoseconds... and there's lots in between, too. :-)
Fun fact: you can buy a potentially lethal dose of polonium-210 on the internet for about $100. It's used in some antistatic devices, which use the positively charged alpha particles to neutralize charge buildup. Devices up to 0.5 mCi can be bought without restriction; more powerful ones are also not difficult to obtain for industrial purposes. The polonium is kept secure under a metal strip - you'd have to dissolve that away and somehow precipitate out the polonium to make it useful. I think a reasonably advanced amateur chemist/Russian assassin should be able to pull this off.
I had to design a perfume or afterrshave for GCSE graphics, i called it polonium for some reason... No wonder i got a D
It means that there are no stable isotopes, so basically brackets are usually used in radioactive elements. Since the larger elements tend to be the radioactive elements and any element larger than uranium is synthetic, the majority of radioactive elements are synthetic, so that's why it may seem like the brackets mean it's synthetic.
"Because it's radioactive and decays so fast it can cause all sorts of unpleasent effects...and it's probably very poisonous as well."
I hear that in every video that involves a heavy metal, especially the radioactive ones.
I think we can safely say that the list of elements that aren't toxic in their elemental forms is shorter than the list that are.
Granted, ALL are in a high enough dosage, but I mean anything that'll sicken or kill with a minute dose or very quickly.
cheers from poland:D
Every one is talking about uranium, but polonium is the most radioactive element in the periodic table !!!!
Just don't put it in your coffee. We don't want another Litvinenko incident.
Poland can into space
I think he means chemically poisonous.
For example Pu in addition to being very radioactive is also chemically toxic making it even more dangerous
LOL is it just me or those look like someone else's arms?
@kawana87
That would be on the same periodic table as "unobtanium" and "Adamantium" (a fictional metal that is supposedly as hard as diamond, which is actually a variant of "Adamant" which, after the middle ages eventually became "A diamond")
Certain sorts of light elements give off great amounts of fast neutrons when bombarded with alpha particles. Foils of lithium and beryllium are the most commonly used materials for these types of so-called spallation neutron sources.
Because you can just pick up some Polonium from the super market, its not like they were used as a trigger in atomic bombs or anything.
Hi! Is it true that Polonium was found to be a component of cigarettes? Would you know if cigarettes today still contain it? Thanks.
Love this channel. :)
No because a large enough amount will decay to half and then half again and half again etc. But it's still detectable so a small enough amount would still be detectable if you managed to live with it inside of you after a year and a half.
How would they keep it, 138 days of storage and half of it is gone, 277 days and 3/4 of it is gone. 2 years and you have less than 1/30 remaining.
That seems very unlikely to me. Cigarettes are lethal because of, among others, carbon monoxide and nicotine, but not plutonium or polonium.
can i ask you something???when alpha or beta decay happen??forexample if we had uranium which its decay is alpha particle and a neutrino if am i correct how i am supposed to know if this is uranium or after the tranmutation become plutonium???
For a plasma one or more of two things must happen: the element must have a very high temperature (3000+ degrees), or it loses all the electrons from one or more of its shells. both of these usually happen. in the case of polonium the only times that it gets hot enough to produce plasma is when it is either being produced, or when it is actually detonating the bomb. that said it also bonds with blood plasma and irradiates the whole body on its trip :( but dont take my word. do some research
@romanticirony yes it is true, it is a byproduct of the smoke in which you inhale from the cigarette and now they still contain it
Ok, people start to eat Polonium; about time i start hoarding Bottlecaps.
But will it blend???
P.S. Maybe that'd be a nice update for the Polonium video. ^^,
I thought it was named after Polonius from Hamlet
Where is the polonium wire!?
@lexichronicle2 I believe it's because they replace some of the other metals in our bodies that are required for certain chemical reactions. I could be wrong but I think that's one of the biggest reasons. I probably should have paid more attention in class so I could give you a better answer :-)
Why does my periodic table have polonium's atomic mass in brackets? I thought brackets meant that the element was synthetic.
POLAND
No one is ever too smart.
you live in the u.k.???
My faavorite elemnt. elemnt number 115, the element of suprise. Whoa tis is the most radioactive element!
actually,I think Po was also used in antistatic brushes
@MYTHWIZ
Polonium yes, Plutonium no
@MYTHWIZ i am sure ppl would die from radiation posinoning then from lung or heart desieases
PROBABLY poisonus??????
@culwin Chuck Norris is that you?
I came here because of Yasser Arafat.
Actually I think its quite brilliant. think of it... it has such a short half life that soon enough any evidence is gone. unlike a bullet. catch my drift?
why does the stereotype of the nutty professor hold true?
I mean dude, what's with the hair!
@VannAleXX LOL!
Expensive eggs.
@culwin the eggs that you laid two mornings ago???
you just had to ruin the joke........sad sad sad :L
polonium was used by mi6 to frame the fsb why not use an alkaloid ? mi6 did it to frame Russia .
No, he died in a French hospital of A.I.D.S.
more so with beta particles rather than alpha particles. alpha particles really cant do jack shit
ha jestem dumny ze jestem Polakiem
I heard that polonium and plutonium are in cigarettes
lol^^
Who is your hair dresser?..
This man doesn't know what he's saying. Polonium has no mutagenic effects whatsoever, it kills everything it touches before they have a chance to mutate.
It also powers time machines and certain sex toys.