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uranium dioxide

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uranium dioxide
n.
A black, highly toxic crystalline powder, UO2, once used in ceramic glazes and gas mantles, now used primarily to pack nuclear fuel rods.


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Of which nation was Chief Cetchewayo a Kurt Russell - see Question 7 uranium dioxide better known as?
Firstly, the colouring agent is not the unstable and radioactive uranium but the more stable uranium dioxide.
This concentrate is shipped to a refinery for further processing to produce (for Canadian use) a black uranium dioxide powder.
 
 
 
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