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Some applications of polonium:

- neutron source as a mixture polonium-beryllium (also used for nuclear weapons)

- elimination of the dust from the surface of materials

- elimination of the static electricity

- radioactive heat source

Today radium has not applications outside the laboratory.

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What did Marie Curie and pierre curie discover?

Polonium and Radium .


What effect did radium and polonium?

Polonium and radium are radioactive elements and toxic; they are dangerous.


What radiations are emitted by radium and polonium?

Radium and polonium are principally alpha emitters.


What was the radium and polonium elements?

The radium and polonium elements were and still are radioactive elements.


Did Dalton come up with radium and polonium?

Any link between Dalton and polonium&radium.

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What cancers were treated by polonium and radium?

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Polonium was used as source of energy in thermoelectric generators.


Is radium and polonium source of energy?

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Polonium and radium doesn't affect history.


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Radium and polonium doesn't changed the world.


What did Marie Curie and pierre curie discover?

Polonium and Radium .


What effect did radium and polonium?

Polonium and radium are radioactive elements and toxic; they are dangerous.


What radiations are emitted by radium and polonium?

Radium and polonium are principally alpha emitters.


Radium and polonium are discovered to be radioactive?

Yes, radium and polonium are radioactive elements.


What was the radium and polonium elements?

The radium and polonium elements were and still are radioactive elements.