How to Use thallium in a Sentence

thallium

noun
  • The team found that kale stores thallium in a crystallized form.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The metal appears as thallium chloride deposits along the veins inside leaves.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Apr. 2026
  • There, in Islamabad, Naeem had a thallium stress test to assess the damage.
    — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 8 Feb. 2018
  • That volcano emits fumes with a thallium concentration at least ten times higher than any other volcanic vapors ever studied.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • The substance that condensed inside the tube, upon analysis, contained an abnormally large amount of thallium.
    — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • The team was able to identify proton loss not only associated with the formation of gold, but also with the production of lead, thallium and mercury atoms.
    — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 13 May 2025
  • The pigment forms a network structure that can trap individual metal ions, such as those from thallium or radioactive cesium, and prevent them from being taken up by the body.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • According to the complaint, Hanmer watched a video on how to create thallium sulfate on April 5 and May 15.
    — Trent Abrego, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Ash found that Zhu Ling had received many doses of toxic thallium, increasing in frequency and concentration over time.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2018
  • Some 14 elements have had eka names including our four new additions which before their discovery were known as eka-thallium, eka-bismuth, eka-astitine and eka-radon.
    — Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2016
  • Testing by the utility identified selenium and thallium in the effluent there.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But a second hair from March 1995 showed Zhu Ling had ingested large doses of thallium constantly for about two weeks.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2018
  • Hashimoto and co go on to calculate the properties of this distortion in a system made of thallium copper chloride, which has quantum properties that should allow the effect to occur.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Hydrogen, lithium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, chlorine and thallium are all getting the switch to the new way of stating atomic weight.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2010
  • Someone used a rare toxic metal called thallium to fell the once-powerful and athletic lobbyist, reporter Nigel Jaquiss writes in his detailed account.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive Politics Team, oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2021
  • No one needs to convince a soul that Colman is one of the single best reasons to keep watching movies and TV today, and that her talent for lacing a twinkle with high degrees of thallium is damn near peerless.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The two metals appear on the same line in the periodic table with their proton count and also their atomic number separated only by mercury (80) and thallium (81).
    — Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Radiogardase, the brand name, was approved by the FDA in 2003 to help treat cesium or thallium exposure.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • It's often used to treat heavy-metal poisoning from thallium or radioactive cesium because its lattice-like network structure—similar to a jungle gym—can trap metal ions from those metals and prevent them from being absorbed by the body.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 June 2022
  • Lead, arsenic, boron, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, thallium, and uranium are among the chemicals and heavy metals listed with coal ash deposits.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 18 May 2018
  • Members of the Brassicaceae family stand out for their ability to absorb thallium, a highly toxic but industrially important metal.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Substances used most include antifreeze, eye drops containing tetrahydrozoline, fentanyl, cyanide, thallium, colchicine, veterinary barbiturates and insulin.
    — Emma Bussey , Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Specifically, the group says the creek has shown signs of elevated concentrations of mercury, and elevated levels of arsenic, molybdenum, selenium, copper and thallium from mining in the area.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 1 Mar. 2020
  • But the spotlight naturally pulls back to Beck, whose eidetic memory for faces, locations and even a stray box of thallium salts at the crime scene suggests a level of expertise honed in places far beyond Lincoln County.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Ash storage sites at the plant are leaking into surface water and groundwater upstream of drinking water intakes for more than 1 million people in the Charlotte region, the report says, calling the thallium and radium results alarming.
    — Deon Roberts, charlotteobserver, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Substances most often used in domestic poisoning incidents are antifreeze, eye drops, the synthetic opioid fentanyl and the prescription medication colchicine, as well as cyanide and the chemical element thallium, according to the note.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The girls died in April after allegedly ingesting raspberries contaminated with thallium, a highly dangerous and odorless metal, the publication reported.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025

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