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Element Thallium - Tl

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Overview of Thallium

Thallium's Name in Other Languages

  • Latin: Thallium
  • Czech: Thallium
  • Croatian: Talij
  • French: Thallium
  • German: Thallium - s
  • Italian: Tallio
  • Norwegian: Thallium
  • Portuguese: Tálio
  • Russian: Таллий
  • Spanish: Talio
  • Swedish: Tallium

Atomic Structure of Thallium

Chemical Properties of Thallium

Physical Properties of Thallium

Regulatory / Health

  • CAS Number
    • 7440-28-0
  • OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)
    • No limits set by OSHA
  • OSHA PEL Vacated 1989
    • No limits set by OSHA
  • NIOSH Recommended Exposure Limit (REL)
    • No limits set by NIOSH
  • Levels In Humans:
    Note: this data represents naturally occuring levels of elements in the typical human, it DOES NOT represent recommended daily allowances.
    • Blood/mg dm-3: 0.00048
    • Bone/p.p.m: 0.002
    • Liver/p.p.m: 0.004-0.033
    • Muscle/p.p.m: 0.07
    • Daily Dietary Intake: 0.0015 mg
    • Total Mass In Avg. 70kg human: 0.5 mg
  • Discovery Year: 1861
  • Name Origin:
    Greek: thallos (young shoot/green twig) from a bright-green line in its spectrum.
  • Abundance of Thallium:
    • Earth's Crust/p.p.m.: 0.6
    • Seawater/p.p.m.: 0.000014
    • Atmosphere/p.p.m.: N/A
    • Sun (Relative to H=1E12): 8
  • Sources of Thallium:
    Found in iron pyrites, crookesite, hutchinsonite and lorandite. It is generally obtained as the by-product of zinc and lead smelting. Annual world wide production is around 30 tons.
  • Uses of Thallium:
    Its compounds are used in rat and ant poisons. Also for detecting infrared radiation and heart muscle research.
  • Additional Notes:
    While thallium was discovered by William Crookes in 1861, it was firs isolated by C.A. Lamy in 1862 in Paris France

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