Plutonium Definition

plo͝o-tōnē-əm
noun
A radioactive, metallic chemical element, one of the actinides, found in trace quantities in native uranium ores and produced by bombarding uranium with deuterons: symbol, Pu; at. no. 94: its most important isotope (plutonium-239) is used in nuclear weapons and as a reactor fuel.
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Synonyms:
  • atomic number 94
  • pu

Origin of Plutonium

  • After the dwarf planet Pluto (from the fact that it follows neptunium in the periodic table)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After Pluto (the entity formerly considered to be a planet).

    From Wiktionary

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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