Talk:Polonium

Votile??

Text contains this word, which is perhaps not a word. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:11, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Volatile. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 12:40, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Volatile in this context does not really mean evaporating easily; it means "unstable and potentially dangerous" (copied from Encarta Dictionary) --Chemicalinterest (talk) 17:28, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

enWP says it gives off groups of atoms from the surface at a high rate well below its melting point. That makes it volatile in a chemical sense. Our enWP article looks pretty competent to me. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:43, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Since it evaporates like that as well, then it is both "evaporating easily" and "potentially dangerous". --Chemicalinterest (talk) 19:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Source hyperlink dead

The source hyperlink for the 2009 PDF is out-of-service. Additionally, I suggest adding a separate neutral source, specifically about Alexander Litvinenko.

Thank you, now done. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:10, 13 June 2014 (UTC)