Sentence examples for polonium from inspiring English sources
noun
A chemical element (symbol Po) with atomic number 84.
They discovered polonium traces on the seats – 26E and 26F – where Kovtun and Luovoi had been sitting.
Polonium even turned up on the shisha pipe which Lugovoi smoked on its terrace.
In Lugovoi's room, 107, the highest reading came from the bathroom plughole, leading to the suspicion he may have thrown the polonium away.
They are accused of trying to poison Litvinenko for the first time later that day – and of succeeding two weeks later when they slipped radioactive polonium into his tea.
Det Insp Craig Mascall of the Metropolitan police said forensic experts later found large quantities of polonium in both Lugovoi and Kovtun's hotel rooms.
More polonium was found in Pescatori, an Italian restaurant where Lugovoi and Kovtun ate that evening, clocking up a bill of £214.20.
See articleAfter inspecting samples from the exhumed remains and possessions of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died in 2004, scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland, issued a report saying that they "moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210".
IMAGINE if the tiny amount of radioactive polonium-210 that killed a former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, in London last month contaminating his family and more than a dozen other people from London's Mayfair district to Hamburg and Moscow—had instead been minute droplets of highly contagious smallpox virus, genetically engineered to neutralise vaccines.
In whatever way it was done, the poisoning appears to be the work of someone with access to well-equipped scientists.Mr Litvinenko is thought to be the first person to die from acute polonium-210 poisoning.
Dmitri Kovtun, the only person identified as a possible suspect, has declared he is a victim, after being exposed to a radioactive isotope, polonium-210, during his meeting with Alexander Litvinenko.
These beads could not be inhaled and, if they were swallowed, would pass through the body relatively safely.A particle accelerator, a machine used by physicists to explore the fundamental building blocks of nature, could have been modified to produce polonium-210, though it would be an inefficient way of making the substance.
