Polonium
"Polonium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Polonium. A radioactive element that is a member of the chalcogen family. It has the atomic symbol Po, atomic number 84, and the atomic weight of the isotope with the longest half-life (209Po) is 208.98. It decays by alpha-emission.
| Descriptor ID |
D011059
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.185.600 D01.268.271.680 D01.268.513.875
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