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No, the atomic bomb and depleted uranium are not the same thing. Nuclear weapons are made with enriched uranium or with plutonium as the fissionable material. Depleted uranium is uranium that is "left over" after natural uranium is put through a process called enrichment to inprove the concentration of the isotope U-235 over that in natural uranium. The enriched uranium with its higher percentage of U-235 is fissionable, and it can be used in nuclear reactors and in nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium is used to make armor-piercing projectiles, and can be put through the neutron flux in an operating reactor to be transformed (transmuted) into plutonium. Use the links below to related questions to learn more.
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What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
An atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM on the 6th of August, 1945.
What was the element used in the first atomic bomb?
Plutonium was used in the Trinity test, Uranium in the first combat weapon.
What are some atomic bomb gases?
Uranium &Plutonium
What else other than uranium 239 is the atomic bomb made of?
Not uranium 239, but uranium 235 and plutonium 239.
Where did the enriched uranium for the Little Boy atomic bomb come from?
The uranium enrichment facilty was at Oak Ridge.
On 1945 was the bomb dropped on hiroshima a atomic bomb or a uranium bomb?
It was both: an atomic bomb using uranium as its fuel.
Which bomb had uranium?
atomic
What is a uranium bomb?
A uranium bomb is an atomic bomb fueled by uranium-235A plutonium bomb is an atomic bomb fueled by plutonium-239A composite bomb is an atomic bomb fueled by both uranium-235 and plutonium-239A wet bomb is a hydrogen bomb fueled by liquefied deuterium/tritiumA dry bomb is a hydrogen bomb fueled by solid lithium deuteride
Which atomic bomb used uranium and which used plutonium?
Hiroshima bomb: uranium Nagasaki bomb: plutonium
What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
An atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM on the 6th of August, 1945.
What was the element used in the first atomic bomb?
Plutonium was used in the Trinity test, Uranium in the first combat weapon.
What goes in an atomic bomb?
uranium or plutonium
What the atomic bomb made of?
Uranium and plutonium
What is a weapon that starts with an a?
The 'Atomic Bomb'.
What are some atomic bomb gases?
Uranium &Plutonium
What elements are in the atomic bomb?
Uranium plutonium and hydrogen
How did uranium change the world?
it made atomic bomb
