Sentences with phrase «rare radioactive element»

Investigators ultimately discovered that he had ingested a lethal dose of the rare radioactive element Polonium 210.

The poisoning incident comes a decade after another former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned with a rare radioactive element and died in London.

Not exact matches

She reckoned that a rare form of old «metal poor» star, one with one - thousandth the iron content of our own young sun, carries an internal clock, one composed of the radioactive elements uranium and thorium.

Visible from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.

The Hebrew University team of scientists have shown that these contradicting observations can be reconciled if the source of radioactive plutonium (as well as other rare elements, such as gold and uranium) is in mergers of binary neutron stars.

Millions of patients depend on a rare radioactive form of one element to scan them for disease.

Hall, meanwhile, is developing faster methods to analyze lanthanides, the 15 rare earth elements that, with the radioactive actinides, are key constituents of fallout.

Inorganic chemicals, compounds of precious metals, rare earth metals, radioactive elements or isotopes