{"id":2752,"date":"2026-10-15T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:56:09","slug":"thallium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/thallium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Thallium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thallium is a soft, silvery post transition metal known for its high density and historical use in electronics and glass manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Thallium<\/strong> | It commonly exhibits +1 and +3 oxidation states, is malleable and has a low melting point relative to many transition metals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Thallium<\/strong> | Recovered as a byproduct of lead and zinc refining, thallium has niche uses in specialty glass, infrared detectors and historically in rodenticides now restricted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Thallium<\/strong> | Stable isotope Tl 205 predominates; thallium and many of its compounds are highly toxic and require strict occupational and environmental controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft, toxic post transition metal with historical electronic and medical uses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}