hexafluoride

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• Willard Libby, later of carbon-14 fame, came from the gaseous diffusion project at Columbia University to acquaint us with the tricks of using uranium hexafluoride.

  Academic text (2006)

• PAEC was tasked with mining, milling, and refining the materials and converting them into yellow cake and uranium hexafluoride.

  Blog text (24)

• The uranium hexafluoride can be converted back to a salt and added to the fuel.

  Academic text (2010)

• So the question we're really asking is what are the forces that would cause sulfur hexafluoride to bind to itself?

• The enriched uranium hexafluoride gas, when converted into metal, forms the core of the weapon.

  Blog text (24)

• This uranium is not within commercial specification (off-spec) or in the form of uranium hexafluoride (UF6).

  Blog text (22)

• The whereabouts of another 337 tons of uranium hexafluoride processed at the Fernald site were unknown.

  Academic text (1990)

• It did not see the vats of poison gas in preparation, nor the uranium hexafluoride destined for the gas-diffusion centrifuges of the isotope separation plant.

  Fiction book (1994)

• This material, uranium hexafluoride, is extremely toxic in both the short term and the long term," Semnani avers, estimating that between 5,000 and 80,000 will fall immediately; the rest over a twenty-year period.

  Blog text (30)

• The Bushehr, Isfahan, and Natanz facilities contain uranium hexafluoride (UF6) and even some low-enriched uranium; the release of which into the environment would almost certainly raise public health concerns.

  Academic text (2012)

Compounds

S

sulfur hexafluoride

• Specialized

6.5

A colorless, odorless gas used to insulate electrical equipment and a strong greenhouse gas

S

sulfur hexafluoride

• Specialized

4.9

A gas used in tiny bubbles to make ultrasound images clearer

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