POLONIUM

-Poloniums atomic number is 84
-The atomic symbol is PO

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• Polonium is a metalloid
• The atomic weight js 209grams
• The density is 9.32

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• Polonium is a silver-grey color
• Its a solid

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• Polonium has 84 electrons
• Polonium has 84 protons
• Rare low melting
• Polonium does not react with water

Marie Sklodowska Curie , who was a polish chemist , discovered polonium in 1898 from pitchblende a material that contains uranium .

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• Polonium is hazardous if it is swallowed or inhaled
• Its very rare and also highy radioactive
• Polonium burns in the air to form polonium (IV) dioxide

FUN FACTS 😛

• Melting Point: 254 F (489.2 C)
• Boiling Point: 962 F (1,763.6 C)
• Historically, polonium played an important military
• role, as it was crucial to the design of the Fat Man bomb that
• was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.