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Is uranium is safe

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depends what kind/when /and where but if u generally want to know , the answer is most likely no because of its acidic form it could burn a hole in almost anything by just dropping it on the material/substance sono!

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Uranium is toxic and radioactive but very useful. Note also that nothing is absolutely safe around us. All the elements, compounds, phenomenons, materials have some dangers.

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