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uranium 238

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. the radioactive uranium isotope having a mass number 238, comprising 99.28 percent of natural uranium: used chiefly in nuclear reactors as a source of the fissionable isotope plutonium 239.


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Origin of uranium 2381

First recorded in 1940–45

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