How to Use polonium in a Sentence

polonium

noun

• The use of a nerve agent fits a pattern established by the murder of Alexander Litvinenko with polonium in 2006.
  — John Lough and James Sherr, Time, 14 Mar. 2018
• He was killed in 2006 after drinking a cup of tea that had been laced with the deadly radioactive metal, polonium.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• British police also found traces of radioactive polonium at his home in north London, a sushi bar, and the hotel.
  — Flora Carr, Time, 6 Mar. 2018
• Handling polonium is not very dangerous for the killer.
  — Fabian Schmidt, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
• Berezovsky sings a vaudeville number; the origins of polonium are outlined in verse.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• The killers of Alexander Litvinenko, who died of polonium poisoning in 2006, left a trail of radiation across London.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The couple discovered polonium (named after Marie’s homeland, the Kingdom of Poland) and radium within a few months.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2021
• Researchers soon learned that polonium could be used in these experiments instead.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• The incident has uncomfortable echoes of the case of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian ex-spy who was murdered in 2006 after his tea was spiked with radioactive polonium.
  — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Rona’s polonium went on to be used in numerous experiments.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• The defector Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium, in 2006.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• The incident has drawn parallels to the death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium 11 years ago in London.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Litvinenko, a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, was fatally poisoned with polonium in 2006 in London.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 6 Mar. 2018
• But Kate’s Terminator resemblance also includes her left eye’s red and distended pupil, evidence of the polonium poisoning that will kill her in 24 hours.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• Marie Curie was a Polish scientist who discovered both polonium and radium, and coined the term radioactivity.
  — Rebecca Norris, Woman's Day, 27 Jan. 2023
• Russia has a track record: in London in 2006 its agents assassinated Alexander Litvinenko, another ex-spy, by slipping polonium into his tea.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• Russia has used the deadly chemical polonium and a military-grade nerve agent against former security-service officers living in Britain, and gunned down a former insurgent from Chechnya in a Berlin park.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2020
• Litvinenko was allegedly slipped a dose of the radioactive isotope polonium through a cup of tea and developed radiation poisoning soon afterward.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2019
• British forensic scientists were ultimately able to determine which Russian reactor the polonium had come from.
  — Tom Tugendhat, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
• This included traces of dangerous elements such as polonium, radium, and lead-210.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 17 Oct. 2022
• Marie Curie was a Nobel-prize-winning French physicist who discovered polonium and radium — later leading to the development of X-rays and the establishment of radiation therapy for cancer.
  — Joanna Dutra, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• This attribution issue offers tactical advantages for the Kremlin such as letting Russia make mischief in ways that are even more subtle than its assassins' signature polonium tea.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 July 2017
• So Soviet engineers who worked on military tanks contributed to the design of the chassis, while nuclear specialists provided a heater fueled by highly radioactive polonium.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2021
• Her accomplishments included the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, and conducting the first studies into the treatment of cancer using radiation.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 10 July 2020
• It’s quickly converted to polonium, another radioactive element, which can attach to dust particles before being deposited in lungs.
  — Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• In 2006, Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko died after being poisoned with polonium in England.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 17 Mar. 2018
• The two discovered two radioactive elements together: polonium and radium.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019

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