Plutonium Synonyms

plo͝o-tōnē-əm
A solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pu
  2. atomic number 94

Words Related to Plutonium

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. periodic-table
  2. heu
  3. weapons-grade
  4. uranium
  5. weapon-grade
  6. americium
  7. highly-enriched
  8. radioactive-waste
  9. reprocess
  10. low-enriched
  11. nuclear-fuel
  12. high-enriched
  13. weapons-usable
  14. stockpile
  15. heavy-water

Plutonium Sentence Examples

  • The US Congress has appropriated more than $ 200 million for cooperation with Russia's plutonium disposition program.

  • In order for detonation to occur, a sphere of plutonium has to be rapidly compressed by a series of conventional high explosives.

  • Russia has over a thousand metric tons of highly enriched uranium, plus 150 metric tons of plutonium.

  • Reprocessing involves the dissolution of the spent fuel in boiling concentrated nitric acid and subsequent physico-chemical separations of uranium and plutonium.

  • Japan's domestic atomic power program is based on reprocessed plutonium.

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