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plutonium
noun
    1. chem.
      , atomic number 94) a dense highly poisonous silvery-grey radioactive metallic element, whose isotope plutonium-239 is used as an energy source for nuclear weapons and some nuclear reactors.
Etymology: 1940s in this sense: named after the planet Pluto.



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