-- card: 35489 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 14320 -- name: Tl -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- Tl -- part contents for background part 22 ----- text ----- Thalium -- part contents for background part 15 ----- text ----- 81 -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- 204.383 -- part contents for background part 18 ----- text ----- 11.85 -- part contents for background part 19 ----- text ----- 303.5 -- part contents for background part 20 ----- text ----- 1457 -- part contents for background part 21 ----- text ----- +1,+3 -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- (Gr. thallos, green twig) Discovered by Crookes in 1861. Named after the green spectral line the element produces. Found in crooksite, lorandite, pyrites and hutchinsonite. -- part contents for background part 23 ----- text ----- metal, metallic luster, develops bluish-gray tint on exposure to air, reacts with water, soft, malleable, can be cut with a knife, 20 isotopes (191-210), elements and compounds are toxic, contact with skin is dangerous, suspected carcinogen -- part contents for background part 24 ----- text ----- thalium sulfate is an odorless and tasteless rodenticide and ant killer and has been banned in the US since 1975, infrared detectors, photocells, added to produce low melting glasses, had been used to treat skin infections (limited due to toxicity) -- part contents for background part 29 ----- text ----- 0.155 -- part contents for background part 26 ----- text ----- Electron Configuration: 1s 2s 2p 3s 3p 3d 4s 4p 4d 4f 5s 5p 5d 5f 6s 6p 6d 6f 7s 2 2 6 2 6 10 2 6 10 14 2 6 10 2 1