It glows!
Double Nobel prize winnerMadame Curie discovered polonium , naming it for her home country of Poland. This nasty element is 500 times more radioactive than radium, but now let's look at the weirder side of Polonium (Po). Creationists have latched onto the phenomenon of rock damage caused by Po decay to argue that rocks must be very young (and hence the earth) but their arguments are highly flawed . And in case you were looking for another reason to stop smoking, american tobacco grown with phosphate fertilizer exposes smokers to elevated levels of radon and polonium, which can cause cancer independently or synergestically with
the numerous other carcinogens in smoke. Think of it this way : if polonium can damage granite, just think what it can do to your lungs...