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Some applications of polonium:

- polonium-beryllium neutron sources

- neutron source for nuclear weapons (also mixed with beryllium)

- radioactive heat source

- devices for the elimination of dust from textiles
It can be alloyed with beryllium to provide a source of neutrons. It can eliminate static charges in textile mills.

It is used on brushes to clean film, and can provide thermoelectric power in space satellites.

Of course, it can also be used as a poison, as it is over 250,000 times as toxic as cyanide, and is very hard to find in a body.

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My reading of the matter implies that Po218 is only important if it is the parent isotope, not the daughter isotope. In other words, if matter (in whatever form) has within it a Po218 halo it should be possible to extrapolate the time needed for that matter to crystallize, or solidify from its supposed molten state. This is because Po218 has a half-life of about 3 minutes (and, if I recall correctly) should completely decay into another isotope about 30 minutes.

Of course there's much more to it, and I'm sure there are many more "uses" for Po218.

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# Start with a uranium-238 atom. This atom has 92 protons and 146 neutrons. It has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. When it decays it emits an alpha particle, leaving behind a thorium-234 atom. # A thorium-234 atom has 90 protons and 144 neutrons. It has a half-life of 24.5 days. When it decays it emits a beta particle and a gamma ray, leaving behind a protactinium-234 atom. # A protactinium-234 atom has 91 protons and 143 neutrons. It has a half-life of 269,000 years. When it decays it emits a beta particle and a gamma ray, leaving behind a thorium-230 atom. # A thorium-230 atom has 90 protons and 140 neutrons. It has a half-life of 83,000 years. When it decays it emits an alpha particle and a gamma ray, leaving behind a radium-226 atom. # A radium-226 atom has 88 protons and 138 neutrons. It has a half-life of 1,590 years. When it decays it emits an alpha particle and a gamma ray, leaving behind a radon-222 atom # radon-222, with a half-life of 3.825 days, emits an alpha particle to become polonium-218.

# polonium-218, with a half-life of 3.05 minutes, emits an alpha particle to become lead-214.

# lead-214, with a half-life of 26.8 minutes, emits a beta particle and a gamma ray to become bismuth-214.

# bismuth-214, with a half-life of 19.7 minutes, emits either an alpha particle or a beta particle and a gamma ray to become either thallium-210 or polonium-214.

# polonium-214, with a half-life of a 150 microseconds, emits an alpha particle to become thallium-210. # thallium-210, with a half-life of 1.32 minutes, emits a beta particle to become lead-210. # lead-210, with a half-life of 22 years, emits a beta particle and a gamma ray to become bismuth-210. # bismuth-210, with a half-life of five days, emits a beta particle to become polonium-210. # polonium-210, with a half-life of 138 days, emits an alpha particle and a gamma ray to become lead-206.

# lead-206 is a stable isotope of lead. That is how polonium 218 is created, and how it is created long after the creation of the earth; some 4.5 billion years ago.

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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

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Some applications of polonium:

- polonium-beryllium neutron sources

- neutron source for nuclear weapons (also mixed with beryllium)

- radioactive heat source

- devices for the elimination of dust from textiles

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Polonium applications: - Source of neutrons: as Po-BeO - Radioisotope thermoelectric energy source - Alpha particles source - Brushes with Po to eliminate static charges from different surfaces - Material in radiochemistry studies

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This is the isotope of polonium Po-218

It has 84 protons and 134 neutrons.

It is radioactive and has a half-life of 3.1 minutes.

This isotope is found only in trace amounts.

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polonium 210 is belived to be used in bombs satalites and other things needing radiation

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In the expression polonium-218, 218 is the mass number (sum of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus of an isotope); polonium-218 (or 218Po) is an isotope of polonium.

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218 is the mass number of the isotope polonium-218.

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What does the 218 in -218 polonium represent?

218Po (or polonium 218) is an isotope of polonium; 218 is the mass number of this isotope. The exact mass is: 218,0089730(26); the half life of this isotope is 3,10(1) minutes.


What are the dangers of polonium 218?

Polonium-218 is radioactive.


Which path would decay polonium 218 to bismuth 214?

Polonium-218 decay to lead-214.


What pathway would decay polonium-218 to bismuth-214?

Polonium-218-------------alpha---------------Lead-214


What element does an atom of polonium change into after it emits an alpha particle?

Polonium 210-----------alpha particles-----------Lead 206 Polonium 209-----------alpha particles-----------Lead 205 Polonium 208-----------alpha particles-----------Lead 204 Polonium 214-----------alpha particles-----------Lead 210 Polonium 218-----------alpha particles-----------Lead 214 (99,98 %) Polonium 218-----------beta particles------------Astatin 218 (o,o2 %) For other isotopes see the list at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Isotopes


What happens to polonium when beta particles are emitted?

The beta minus decay of polonium isotopes is extremely rare. Beta decay involve the increase of the atomic number with 1.Example: Po-218----------------beta minus---------------At-218


How is the structure of the nucleus of a polonium 218 atom different from the structure of the nucleus of a radon 222 atom?

Polonium-218 has 84 protons, 84 electrons and 134 neutrons.Radon-222 has 86 protons, 86 electrons and 136 neutrons.


What does the number 218 in polonium 218 mean?

436


What does the symbol PO-210 represent?

Polonium -210, this unstable isotope of Polonium (named after Poland) is an alpha emitter with a half life of 138.376 days, it decays into Pb.


What does po 210 represent?

The symbol Po-210 represents the isotope of Polonium with a mass number of 210.


Is polonium odorless?

Polonium is odorless.


How does polonium taste?

Polonium has not a taste.