It is also used to keep environments dust free, such as in the production of computer chips. This is useful for making tape, rolling paper, and spinning synthetic fibers, for example. Polonium-210 is used in industry to make devices that remove static. Tobacco smokers have more polonium-210 because smoking causes it to accumulates in the lungs. Polonium-210 is present in small amounts in the human body, due to low levels in the normal environment and the food chain, especially in seafood. Its biological half life is 40 days, so it takes 40 days for biological processes to eliminate half of the Polonium-210 in the body. This means that half its radioactivity dies away in this time. It decays into a new, stable metal: lead. As a result, it ceases to be dangerous relatively quickly. This material is highly dangerous, but it has a relatively short half-life. The most common and best-known polonium isotope is polonium-210. Purified polonium is very volatile, and polonium isotopes are radioactive. Polonium-210 is one of 25 known radioactive isotopes of polonium. In its natural state, at room temperature, polonium is a solid metal with a silver color. Polonium is a radioactive chemical element (atomic number 84) that was discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie, who named the element after her country, Poland. Share on Pinterest Polonium-210 is highly radioactive substance and a lethal poison.
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