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Selected Political Criminal Poisonings in the Years 1978–2020: Detection and Treatment
Toxics, 2022 Criminal poisonings are among the least frequently detected crimes in the world. Lack of suspicion of this type of event by police officers and prosecutors, clinical symptoms imitating many somatic diseases and technical difficulties in diagnostics, as ...
Zuzanna Brunka +8 more
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Polonium and Lung Cancer [PDF]
Journal of Oncology, 2011 The alpha-radioactive polonium 210 (Po-210) is one of the most powerful carcinogenic agents of tobacco smoke and is responsible for the histotype shift of lung cancer from squamous cell type to adenocarcinoma. According to several studies, the principal source of Po-210 is the fertilizers used in tobacco plants, which are rich in polyphosphates ...
Zaga, Vincenzo +3 more
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2013 Livers, kidneys and muscles of large herbivorous animals: roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus) and fallow deer (Dama dama), collected in northern Poland, were the subject of the investigation.
Strumińska-Parulska D. I. +3 more
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2013 The aim of this work was the determination of 210Po, 234U, 238U, 238Pu and 239+240Pu concentration in marine birds which permanently or temporally live in the southern Baltic Sea coast.
Strumińska-Parulska D. I. +3 more
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High and Low Selenium Exposure and Cancer Risk: A Meta-Meta-Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2023 Selenium was discovered in the first quarter of the 19th century and classified as a chalcogen belonging to the 16th group, along with oxygen, sulfur, tellurium, and polonium.
Mehmet Emin Arayici +2 more
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2013 The aim of this work was the determination of the impact of phosphogypsum waste heap in Wiślinka (northern Poland) for radiological protection of zone around waste heap. The activity of 210Po, 234U, and 238U were measured using an alpha spectrometer. The
Boryło A., Skwarzec B., Olszewski G.
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Optimization of Plating Conditions for the Determination of Polonium Using Copper Foils
Challenges, 2016 The technique of adsorption of polonium onto metal surfaces by spontaneous deposition has found applications in the analysis of environmental samples such as marine sediments, foodstuff, water, and tobacco since the 1960s.
Bolaji Benard Babatunde
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2013 The objective of this study was determination of the polonium (210Po), uranium (234U and 238U) radionuclides and trace metals (Pb, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cd, Hg) concentrations in mosses samples from Sobieszewo Island near the phosphogypsum waste dump in ...
Boryło A. +3 more
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Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences, 2015 A study has been conducted to estimate the concentration of natural radioactive polonium in commercially available packaged infant food formulae available in Mumbai, India and the corresponding daily dose normalized based on its shelf life.
Ravi K. Prabhath +4 more
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New half-lives in the polonium isotopic chain [PDF]
EPJ Web of ConferencesThe astrophysical rapid-neutron capture process (r-process) of explosive nucleosynthesis is responsible for the formation of half of the heavy nuclei above Fe.
Benzoni Giovanna, Polettini Marta
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