WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weapons-grade plutonium mean? 

• WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM (noun)
  The noun WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

weapons-grade plutonium; weapons plutonium

Hypernyms ("weapons-grade plutonium" is a kind of...):

plutonium 239 (a highly fissionable isotope of plutonium that is used in atomic weapons and as a reactor fuel; produced by irradiating uranium 238 with slow electrons)