Plutonium in a sentence as a noun

"This - and not the plutonium - is the bad part.

It's an alpha emitter, so plutonium not in your body is not a risk to you.

Making it sound like he's buying plutonium or something.

The toxicity of plutonium in humans is not known, simply because not enough people have died of it.

Reminded me of this line from "Back to the Future":Doc: I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

The sodium breeder was good at making plutonium but still was never designed to have that plutonium removed in any usable fashion.

If all the plutonium produced by civilian nuclear power was pulverized and spread in populated areas, it would not make nuclear reactors as dangerous to people as wind power.

> "Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room.

The bomb that was tested during Trinity was a plutonium, implosion device, completely different from the uranium, gun-type device dropped on Hiroshima.

As the lab's Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began.

Suffice to say, plutonium is sufficiently non-radioactive that it's chemical toxicity is considered significant in it's lethality.

Plutonium definitions

noun

a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239