thallium in English

noun
1
the chemical element of atomic number 81, a soft silvery-white metal that occurs naturally in small amounts in pyrite and other ores. Its compounds are very poisonous.
However, water-soluble rubidium, cesium, thallium , and silver minerals are virtually nonexistent and should pose no complication.

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1. 13 There was no chance that Donald would diagnose thallium poisoning.

2. Flame atomic absorption spectroscopy can be used for the quantitative determination of thallium.

3. The absorbance of thallium is constant over a wide range of ashing temperatures.

4. Case described the detector material as consisting of thallium, oxygen and sulfur, and this was incorrectly described by others as being thallium oxysulfide, which incidentally is a compound that is not known.

5. 2 Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car.

6. Many thallium(I) compounds are highly soluble in water and are readily absorbed through the skin.

7. It works by binding to and thus preventing the absorption of thallium and cesium from the intestines.

8. High amounts of hafnium, holmium and thallium also allows some retention of the δ phase at room temperature.

9. 237 Np decays via the neptunium series, which terminates with thallium-205, which is stable, unlike most other actinides, which decay to stable isotopes of lead.

10. Sir William Crookes The English chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) discovered the element thallium and invented the radiometer, the spinthariscope, and the Crookes tube

11. Adenosine is indicated as an adjunct to thallium-201 in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and also indicated for conversion of sinus rhythm of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia

12. A substance sensitive to ionizing radiation is proposed consisting of alkali-halide crystals with a structure of the NaCl type, modified ions of nickel, gallium, indium, thallium and palladium.

13. A significant decrease of thallium soil content after cultivation of rape (Brassica napus L. var. napus) was found on two differently contaminated soils of the alluvial fan of the Neckar river near Heidelberg (FRG).

14. The relative and absolute amounts of sodium and potassium present in the diet might be of importance with respect to the explanation of species differences observed in the sensitivity towards the effects of thallium and also in the therapy of thallotoxicosis.

15. Sir William Crookes, (born June 17, 1832, London, Eng.—died April 4, 1919, London), British chemist and physicist noted for his discovery of the element thallium and for his cathode-ray studies, fundamental in the development of atomic physics.

16. Also described is a new thallium-201 generator that comprises a column containing an acidic organosphosphorus extractant adsorbed on carbon or graphite fibers, and a yttrium-90 generator system comprised of two extraction columns designed to selectively absorb yttrium-90 at different pH, to enable the separation of yttrium-90 from strontium-90.