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What is Polonium?

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It is a chemical element with the folllowing characteristics:
abbreviation | Po
atomic number | 84
electron configuration | Xe4f^145d^106s^26p^4
block | p
group | 16
period | 6
atomic weight | (209)
half-life | 102 years

Its thermodynamic properties (properties at standard conditions) are:
phase at STP | solid
melting point | 254 deg C
boiling point | 962 deg C

The nuclear properties are:
half-life | 102 yr
lifetime | 147 yr
specific radioactivity | 621 GBq/g
decay mode | alpha emission
nuclear spin | Po188: 0^+
unstable isotopes | Po209 (102 yr)
neutron cross-section | 0.5 b

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It's an element discovered by Pierre Curie and wife Marie Curie (maiden name Marie Skladowska), and named after Marie's native homeland of Poland.

It's chemical symbol is Po and its atomic number is 84.

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