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FERTILE MATERIAL

Specialty Definition: FERTILE MATERIAL

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Energy

A material, which is not itself fissile(fissionable by thermal neutrons), that can be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor. There are two basic fertile materials, uranium-238 and thorium-232. When these fertile materials capture neutrons, they are converted into fissile plutonium-239 and uranium-233, respectively. (references)

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Modern Translation: FERTILE MATERIAL

Language Translations for "FERTILE MATERIAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

ядерное топливное сырье. (various references)

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Anagrams: FERTILE MATERIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-f-i-i-l-l-m-r-r-t-t"

-5 letters: alliterate, farmerette, illiterate, maltreater, termitaria, trailerite, trilateral, triliteral.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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