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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Poisonous thallium is element number 81 and its chemical symbol is Tl.

Thallium salts are very poisonous and its cation Tl+ is especially dangerous because it mimics an essential cation in our body. What is this cation, which we need to live?

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