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Plutonium-238
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Ciro Santilli
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2025-04-18
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2024-08-14
Strong
alpha emitter
. Can be used
as
an
atomic battery
.
Figure 1.
Plutonium-238
-oxide pellet glowing under its own
heat
.
Source
. Unlike for nuclear applications,
we
don'
t
need the pure
metal
, so the oxide
238
PuO
2
is used instead
as
it is more chemically stable.
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Plutonium-238
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Wikipedia Bot
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1970-01-01
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