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Polonium   /pəlˈoʊniəm/   Listen
Polonium

noun
1.
A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor.  Synonyms: atomic number 84, Po.






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"Polonium" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gordon-Nasmyth scornfully, sitting down and helping himself to one of my uncle's cigars. "I'm sorry I came. But, still, now I'm here.... And first as to quap; quap, sir, is the most radio-active stuff in the world. That's quap! It's a festering mass of earths and heavy metals, polonium, radium, ythorium, thorium, carium, and new things, too. There's a stuff called Xk—provisionally. There they are, mucked up together in a sort of rotting sand. What it is, how it got made, I don't know. It's like ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Polonium" :   po, metal, metallic element



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