If you are using it for one of your Boy Scout requirements, see your handbook for a list of things you can teach. For most recent ILSC, our leader used making a paper airplane to demonstrate the EDGE method. What you teach should fit your audience and any requirement you are trying to fulfill. Reply.
Uses of Thallium. Thallium sulfate, which is odorless and colorless, was used as a rat poison and as an insecticide. This use has been discontinued in some countries, including the USA. Thallium sulfide is used in photocells because its electrical conductivity increases on exposure to infrared light.
He named the new element that was producing the green line thallium, after the greek word for 'green twig', thallos. He isolated samples of thallium the next year.Thallium is found in the minerals crooksite (CuThSe), lorandite (TlAsS 2) and hutchinsonite ((Pb, Tl) 2 As 5 S 9), but is usually obtained as a byproduct of the production of sulfuric acid or as a byproduct of refining zinc or lead.istory and Uses: Thallium was discovered spectroscopically by Sir William Crookes, an English chemist, in 1861. Crooks had obtained the sludge left over from the production of sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4) from a friend.