Crossword-Solution: THALLIUM
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| Thallium | n. | A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7. |
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| COPPER constituent | 1 answer |
| Element used in thermometers | 1 answer |
| IRON pyrites, constituent of | 1 answer |
| OPTICAL glass, metallic element used for | 1 answer |
| SELENIUM, constituent of | 1 answer |
| SILVER, constituent of | 1 answer |
| highly toxic metallic element | 1 answer |
| CROOKESITE, constituent of | 2 answers |
| A SOFT GREY MALLEABLE METALLIC ELEMENT THAT RESEMBLES TIN BUT DISCOLORS ON EXPOSURE TO AIR | 11 answers |
| metallic chemical element | 20 answers |
| Element | 95 answers |
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Sentences with THALLIUM (5)
This suggestion has been of great service in spectrum analysis, and as applied by Bunsen, Kirchoff, and others, has led to the discovery of several new elements, such as rubidium and thallium, as well as increasing our knowledge of the heavenly bodies.
The wire contains thallium and helium as the spectroscope shows; but its awful radioactivity and deadly emanation has yet to be explained.
You will see," he added, pointing down the second vertical column on the chart, "that gold belongs to the hydrogen group--hydrogen, lithium, sodium, potassium, copper, rubidium, silver, caesium, then two blank spaces for elements yet to be discovered to science, then gold, and finally another unknown element." Running his finger along the eleventh, horizontal series, he, continued: "The gold series--not the group--reads gold, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, and other elements known only to myself.
Schoene has given the results of an extended series of experiments on the use of thallium paper for estimating approximately the oxidizing material in the atmosphere, whether it be hydrogen peroxide alone, or mixed with ozone, or perhaps also with other constituents hitherto unknown.
These objections do not lie against the thallium paper, the oxidation to brown oxide by either ozone or hydrogen peroxide not requiring the presence of moisture, and the color, therefore, being independent of the hygrometric state of the air.
Quotes with THALLIUM (1)
When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).