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187 Gary Chan

Class 7L Sunday, February 07, 2010
Lab Report
Period Table, Other metals, Thallium

Question: How is Thallium used to detect radiation energy?

The periodic table lists the known chemical elements by their characteristics. The
periodic table is one of the most useful tools in all of science. My group is the other
metals, which is found in the right corner next to the metalloids and none metals. These
are the elements that don’t belong to any other grouping. The element I’m researching is
Thallium. It is toxic to human beings and builds up over time.
The group I was given was the other metals. The other metals group is elements
that don’t belong with other metals, such as transition metals or alkaline earth metals.
This group is usually referred to as “poor metals” or just “metals.” The elements
aluminum, gallium, bismuth, indium, lead, thallium, and tin belong to the group other
metals. These elements are different, for example, they have different melting points and
boiling points as others.
The element I’m doing is Thallium. It is a metal that belongs to the group other
metals. This element is toxic to human beings. It is a soft, bluish-gray metal and it is
usually an impurity. It appears on minerals crookesite, hitchinsonite, and lorandite. It has
many uses but it can only be used for so many because of its toxic characteristic.