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thallium

Soft, bluish-white, malleable, metallic element, atomic number 81, relative atomic mass 204.38. It is a poor conductor of electricity. Its compounds are poisonous and are used as insecticides and rodent poisons; some are used in the optical-glass and infrared-glass industries and in photocells.

Discovered spectroscopically by its green line, thallium was isolated and named by William Crookes in 1861.
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