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What substance is 900 times more radioactive as pure uranium?
Plutonium is approximately 900 times more radioactive than pure uranium. Plutonium is a radioactive element that is found in trace amounts in uranium ores, and it is used in nuclear reactors and weapons due to its high radioactivity.
Is plutonium as dense as the element uranium?
The density of uranium is 19,1 g/cm3. The density of plutonium is 19,816 g/cm3.
What does uranium and plutonium do inside a bomb?
The critical mass of plutonium is lower, plutonium is not so expensive as highly enriched uranium, the technology to obtain plutonium is more simple than the isotopic separa-tion of uranium, etc.
What are the difference between plutonium and uranium?
Uranium and plutonium are very heavy metals belonging to the element category actinide encompassing the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers from 89 to 103, actinium through lawrencium. Three uranium isotopes occur in nature versus only trace amounts of one isotope of plutonium. Of course the nuclear, chemical, physical and toxicological properties of uranium and plutonium are very different.
What is plutonium abundance earth's crust?
Only a trace of plutonium is naturally found in the earth's crust. And it is always found with uranium because it is made by uranium's spontaneous fission, neutron release, and the subsequent neutron capture by another uranium nucleus to form the plutonium atom. Plutonium is not formed by the death of a star in a super nova like uranium is. Uranium is the heaviest element formed in that event. That's why there isn't any plutonium around as an ore. Just the trace amounts found with uranium. We're lucky there isn't a lot of plutonium around. It is highly toxic owing to its hightly radioactive nature. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on plutonium.
Can uranium and plutonium bond?
Uranium and plutonium can form alloys.
Can plutonium combine with uranium?
Plutonium and uranium can form alloys.
Can you recycle uranium and plutonium?
Yes, it is possible to recycle "burned" uranium and plutonium.
What is smaller in radius uranium or plutonium?
The atomic radii of uranium and plutonium are identical.
Is plutonium limited?
Plutonium is obtained from uranium irradiated in nuclear reactors, consequently the production of plutonium depends on uranium resources.
Are uranium and plutonium easily obtained?
Uranium is not easily obtained; and the technology of plutonium is extremely difficult.
What substance is 900 times more radioactive as pure uranium?
Plutonium is approximately 900 times more radioactive than pure uranium. Plutonium is a radioactive element that is found in trace amounts in uranium ores, and it is used in nuclear reactors and weapons due to its high radioactivity.
Is plutonium and enriched uranium the same thing?
Plutonium and enriched uranium are different materials.Enriched uranium is uranium with a concentration of the isotope 235U greater than the natural concentration of 0,7 %.
Which atomic bomb used uranium and which used plutonium?
Hiroshima bomb: uranium Nagasaki bomb: plutonium
Is smaller in radius uranium or plutonium?
The atomic radii (empirical) of plutonium and uranium are identical - 175 pm.
Does nuclear power have uranium in it?
Either Uranium or Plutonium.
Can anyone give you an example of a radioactive substance?
H3, Deuterium is radioactive. Uranium and plutonium are radioactive and are used in atomic bombs.
