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- From: John.Brawley@f9.n8012.z86.toadnet.org (John Brawley)
- Sender: fredgate@cheswicks.toadnet.org
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- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Polonium chemistry
- Message-ID: <727617822.AA00439@cheswicks.toadnet.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 15:21:00 -0600
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- Greetings, all; this is a new option for me, access to the NET.
- Please bear with me: I'm still trying to arrange reliable return
- responses.
- Question: Where can I find specific information on the
- electrochemical behaviour of Polonium in association with
- Lead (Pb)? There seems little chance of finding what I need
- in 'standard' texts, since Polonium has no stable isotopes,
- hence cannot have any stable chemical associations, and I
- actually need something more in the line of Van der Walls'
- forces _near_ the Polonium and the Lead. Here's the hypothetical
- situation (which is actually _not_ hypothetical): Suppose that
- one had, say, one hundred atoms of lead sitting in a little pile
- on the "floor" of a cubic cavity half a micron on a side (one-
- eighth cubic microns). In the cavity suddenly appears a Polonium
- atom moving in some random direction with a thermally-related
- impetus of about eighty degrees. What forces, if any, would this
- suddenly-appearing atom of Polonium "feel" from the pile of Lead
- atoms on the floor of the cavity in the time allowed before it
- "settles" gravitationally onto the floor?
-
- There is a direct application for this information, which is too
- complicated to go into here, so it is _not_ a "strange" question;
- I actually have to deal with exactly what I've described, with
- the cavity being quite a bit _longer_ (but not wider), and the
- atom of Polonium actually "appearing" _as_ Polonium suddenly
- out of "nowhere" due to its having been Radon-222 up 'till the
- moment of its change to Polonium. (Radon, an inert gas, will not
- "feel" any electrochemical forces from nearby atoms, I understand,
- with its filled outer shell.)
-
- Thank you, and someone please try to respond so I can determine
- if messages can actually get to me here...
-
- John.Brawley@f9.n8012.z86.toadnet.org
-
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