What is thallium uesd for?

Answer 1

Thallium isn't only a chemical element in the Periodic Table, it's use in EKGs is very evident and important. It is a radioactive substance injected intravenously into a patient while being monitored exercising on a treadmill. The thallium mixes with the blood in the bloodstream and in the arteries enters the heart muscle cells. It shows how well blood flows to the heart muscle. It helps diagnose coronary artery blockage and heart function after a heart attack.

Answer 2

Thallium is most famously known as a poison, in the form of thallium sulfate. A one gram dose is the approximate fatal dose of a soluble thallium salt. More practically, thallium sulfate is an excellent hair remover, this application being associated historically with the treatment of ringworm. Thallium sulfate is has been sold as a pesticide, although this practice only continues at the present in developing nations.

Answer 3

Thallium is used in the electronic industry for making semiconductors, in the production of specialized glass and lenses, and as an ingredient in certain medical imaging procedures. It has also been used in the past as a rat poison and insecticide, although its use for these purposes has declined due to its toxicity.

Answer 4

is used for insect and rat poison, special glass for the highly reflective lenses, and it is used in medicine.

Answer 5

portable x-rays and lasers and satellites that take pictures of earth

Answer 6

the chemical element of atomic number 69 a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series

Answer 7

it's used as an insecticide. Its used in photocells and gamma radiation detection equipment too. :)

Answer 8

Ok everyone who looks on this site one of the uses of thallium is it was used in old day rat poisson

Answer 9

Thallium is a chemical element in the periodic table, with the atomic number 81 and the symbol Tl.