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The First Sample of Plutonium |
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| Plutonium was first isolated as an element in the early 1940s by Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and their associates at the University of California. To obtain plutonium, the scientists bombarded a sample of uranium with deuterium (heavy hydrogen) atoms in a particle accelerator called a cyclotron. Plutonium was critical for the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to build an atomic bomb. | ||||||
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| Plutonium; Manhattan Project; Seaborg, Glenn Theodore; McMillan, Edwin Mattison | ||||||
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