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uranium 238
noun
, Chemistry.
- 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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