weapons plutonium

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   plutonium 239 that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled; it is stored in plutonium pits

   Synonymsweapons-grade plutonium

   Broaderplutonium 239

Questions about weapons plutonium

What does weapons plutonium mean?

weapons plutonium means "plutonium 239 that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled; it is stored in plutonium pits".

What is another word for weapons plutonium?

Close synonyms include weapons-grade plutonium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is weapons plutonium a common word?

weapons plutonium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.