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Plutonium is a
chemical element; it has
symbol Pu and
atomic number 94. It is a silvery-gray
actinide metal that
tarnishes when
exposed to air, and forms...
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Plutonium,
plutonium, or
plutónium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Plutonium is a
radioactive chemical element with
symbol Pu and
atomic number...
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Plutonium-239 (239 Pu or Pu-239) is an
isotope of
plutonium.
Plutonium-239 is the
primary fissile isotope used for the
production of
nuclear weapons, although...
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Plutonium-238 (238 Pu or Pu-238) is a
radioactive isotope of
plutonium that has a half-life of 87.7 years.
Plutonium-238 is a very
powerful alpha emitter;...
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Plutonium (94Pu) is an
artificial element,
except for
trace quantities resulting from
neutron capture by uranium, and thus a
standard atomic weight cannot...
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Plutonium fluoride can
refer to:
Plutonium trifluoride, PuF3
Plutonium tetrafluoride, PuF4
Plutonium pentafluoride, PuF5
Plutonium hexafluoride, PuF6 This...
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Enriched uranium was
produced at
Clinton Engineer Works in Tennessee.
Plutonium was
produced in the world's
first industrial-scale
nuclear reactors, built...
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Plutonium-244 (244Pu) is an
isotope of
plutonium that has a half-life of 81.3
million years. This is
longer than any
other isotope of
plutonium and longer...
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built by
scientists and
engineers at Los
Alamos Laboratory using plutonium manufactured at the
Hanford Site and was
dropped from the
Boeing B-29...
- (primarily
plutonium, americium, and uranium)
contamination within and
outside its boundaries. The
contamination primarily resulted from two
major plutonium fires...
