Polonium was discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 in Paris.

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Poisoned Russian implicates Putin before death

Quote: "The Health Protection Agency said the radioactive element polonium-210, which is extremely hard to detect, had been found in Litvinenko?s urine."

 

[George P Burdell]

Police probing the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko have found above-normal levels of radiation at three locations in London.

Mr Litvinenko's death has been linked to the presence of a "major dose" of radioactive polonium-210 in his body.

Scotland Yard confirmed traces were also found at his home, a sushi bar and a hotel, but the risk to others was said by health experts to be very low.

The Kremlin has denied UK citizen Mr Litvinenko's claims it was involved.

The traces were found at the Itsu sushi restaurant in Piccadilly, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, and at Mr Litvinenko's home in Muswell Hill, north London, Scotland Yard said.

 

[Minerva]

Radium > Polonium.

My grandfather has a collection of radioactive things from polonium spark plugs (they believed the ionized air near the gap made for better spark and combustion!) to WWII radium disks that were worn by troops. The disks are quite hot and can peg the CD GM counter on x100 scale (over 60 mRem/hr!)

 

[RedArmy]

F orbitals ftl.

 

[moks78]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
so who can afford to use this to poison people?

Putin's henchman
according to the late Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.

 

[Cattlegod]

Uranus smells like poop.

 

[Cookie]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Uranus smells like poop.

Learn to wipe

 

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