When U-238 absorbs a fast neutron it forms plutonium-239
One thing that can happen when a neutron interacts with a uranium atom is called scattering. The neutron "bounces off" the uranium. Aside from scattering, a neutron has a possibility of being absorbed by the uranium nucleus, and this can cause several different reactions, depending on which isotope of uranium is involved in the reaction. It is neutron absorption that is the mechanism utilized in the chain reactions in nuclear weapons and in nuclear reactors. Nuclear fuel, which is often uranium-235, fissions by absorbing a neutron. In the case of uranium-238, we make plutonium by getting that isotope to absorb a neutron. There is a lot more to learn, and you'll find related links below to get you going.
a neutron is absorbed by an atom’s nucleus. (apex)
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Absorbing a neutron and emitting a gamma photon Th-232 become U-233.
Uranium is a silvery-grey metal in both solid and liquid state, However on exposure to air it produces a black uranium oxide on its surface, which would happen much faster to liquid uranium than to solid uranium.
Being a metal Uranium would conduct electricity.
Become radioactive and die..
They mostly happen in dry lands unless there always wet then they happen alot
is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature. It is not fissile, but is afertile material: it can capture a slow neutron and after beta decay become fissile plutonium-239. U-238 is fissionable by fast neutrons, but cannot support a chain reaction because inelastic scattering reduces neutron energy below the range where fast fission is probable.
It cause a reflection(: