POLONIUM, Po
HIGHLY CHARGED FEROCITY!
Though Po was wrung from pitchblende ore through dogged Curie-osity,
Today ’tis made when neutrons bash big bismuth with velocity.
It heats and glows, decays away,
“poe,” rhymes with “toe”
Though Po was wrung from pitchblende ore through dogged Curie-osity,
GROUP 16 METALLOID
Polonium is a soft, radioactive, silvery-gray metalloid discovered in Paris in 1898 by Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934) and her husband Pierre Curie (1859–1906). Marie wondered why the uranium oxide ore pitchblende emitted four times more ...
Get From Arsenic to Zirconium now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
