Clockwise from left: Lunokhod 1, a soviet moonwalker and user of polonium (from Wikimedia Commons), a tiny disc of steel with a film of polonium on it (from Wikimedia Commons), polonium as it appears in the periodic table. We’ve returned to radioactivity and pitchblende with polonium! Unlike the weak radioactive thorium from two days ago,Continue reading “Day 34: Polonium”
Each day for the rest of 2020 I'll write a bit about a random element of the periodic table.
An Element A Day 