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plutonium

/ploo-toh-nee-uhm/US // pluˈtoʊ ni əm //UK // (pluːˈtəʊnɪəm) //

钚,钚的,钸,钚的作用

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry, Physics.

    • : a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.

Examples

  • Researchers there were helping design nuclear reactors to produce the plutonium needed to create an atomic bomb.

  • Within one piece of the sample, the scientists searched for a variety of plutonium called plutonium-244, which is produced by the r-process.

  • A smattering of plutonium atoms embedded in Earth’s crust are helping to resolve the origins of nature’s heaviest elements.

  • Scientists had long suspected that elements such as gold, silver and plutonium are born during supernovas, when stars explode.

  • The scientists can’t say if the plutonium they detected also came from those supernovas.

  • When my oldest child was a toddler, I treated illuminated screens like plutonium.

  • The reactor has the potential to produce weapons grade plutonium.

  • The reactor has the potential to produce weapon grade plutonium.

  • No one seems worried about 30 to 40 pounds of missing plutonium.

  • But on his watch North Korea, the chief target of his ire, reprocessed enough plutonium to make six new nuclear weapons.

  • I wonder if he mightn't have some idea of what else plutonium can be used for, beside generating power.

  • He also managed to convey King Orgzild's pleasure at having obtained the plutonium.

  • You see, the uranium or plutonium fission-bomb's been obsolete for over four hundred years.

  • Here was also a sacred cavern, styled by Strabo Plutonium, and Charonium; which sent up pestilential effluvia.

  • Rip went to it and examined the raw plutonium, being careful to keep the pieces widely separated.