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thalliumthal‧li‧um /ˈθæliəm/ noun [uncountable] thalliumOrigin: 1800-1900 Modern Latin, Greek thallos ‘new green plant part’; because it has a bright green line in its spectrum - Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car.
- He spent the next ten years in a classic investigation of thallium and its properties.
- He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium.
- In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence; he identified the new element thallium.
- Maybe not, since Henry, unless he got the thallium anywhere near the chicken leg, would be feeling fine.
- The victims, from New York's Columbia Univeristy, were undergoing dialysis to flush the thallium out of their bodies.
- There was no chance that Donald would diagnose thallium poisoning.
- What he really wanted to write was: Henry Farr wishes some thallium to administer to his wife.
a soft blue-white metal that is poisonous, used in photoelectric cells and to kill rats, mice, and insects. It is a chemical element: symbol Tl |