The name thallium comes from the Greek word thallios which means a green twig, which is a reference to this green line. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
Her son, Sipho, was poisoned with a rare substance called thallium, while in detention with a friend, Topsy. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
No private person or organization has got thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference
They say radioactive thallium does remain a possibility. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference
Doctors say he's in serious condition with thallium poisoning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2006] Reference
Manganese nodules that form on the ocean floor contain thallium. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
Two American women, a mother and daughter, poisoned by thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2007] Reference
It was a thallium with a specialized addition of something else. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference
As late as 1999, thallium was not recovered from ores in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
Doctors say he must have been poisoned with the toxic metal thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference
And two Russian-born American women apparently poisoned with thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2007] Reference
They think thallium, a heavy metal, and rat poison, and even Geiger tests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006] Reference
As a result, thallium is recovered as a by-product of processing zinc ores. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
Tests confirmed that they were poisoned by thallium, apparently accidentally. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007] Reference
NEWTON: And yet it takes just a pinch of thallium to kill or seriously hurt someone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2006] Reference
Two American women, a mother and daughter, sick from thallium while they were in Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2007] Reference
Still a mystery how Dr. Marina Kovalevsky and her daughter, Yana, were exposed to thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2007] Reference
Two Americans women, a mother and daughter poisoned with thallium while they were in Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2007] Reference
That's what was happening to Litvinenko, so they assumed he had been poisoned with thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006] Reference
L.A. COUNTY: The salts of thallium are colorless, are tasteless and can be dissolved in liquid. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2007] Reference
It is estimated that the thallium resources worldwide total approximately 17 million kilograms. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
NEWTON (on camera): And yet, it takes just a pinch of thallium to kill or seriously hurt someone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2006] Reference
They think thallium, a heavy metal and rat poison and even Geiger tests, but all tests are negative. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006] Reference
In addition to these resources, approximately 630 million kilograms of thallium is contained in coal. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
They were hospitalized for thallium poisoning in Moscow last month, before flying home to Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007] Reference
On chromate of cadmium, made with bichromate of potash, thallium would naturally confer an orange hue. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
That thallium affects the colour is most probable, but it is not necessarily the cause of the orange hue. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
If we sprinkle thallium salt in the flame the green line of that element will be visible in the spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The solution commonly used for the heaviest stones is a mixture of nitrate of thallium and nitrate of silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference
And finally, doctors say, the dead give away Litvinenko had been poisoned with thallium, he lost all his hair. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2006] Reference
It's still a mystery, though, how Marina Kovalevsky (ph) and her daughter Yanna (ph) were exposed to thallium. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2007] Reference
It seemed proof enough for me that the thallium I put in his coffee that last week together was a good idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow's Morning] Reference
As with other commodities, a way of recovering thallium from coal at a reasonable cost has not yet been developed. From Wordnik.com. [Thallium] Reference
They are not absolutely insoluble in water, and the sulphide of thallium being brown, would probably be damaged by impure air. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Admixtures are - according to the respective type of lamp - iodides of sodium (Na), thallium (TI), indium (In) and lithium (Li). From Wordnik.com. [5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes] Reference
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