URANIUM 235


Meaning of URANIUM 235 in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1940

: a light isotope of uranium of mass number 235 that constitutes less than one percent of natural uranium, that when bombarded with slow neutrons undergoes rapid fission into smaller atoms with the release of neutrons and energy, and that is used in nuclear reactors and atomic bombs

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