Sentence examples for of ordinary uranium from inspiring English sources

Although the early experiments involved the fission of ordinary uranium with slow neutrons, it was rapidly established that the rare isotope uranium-235 was responsible for this phenomenon.

The isotope of uranium with the atomic number 92 and mass 235, written as uranium-235 or, in chemical symbols, as 235U, is present to the extent of only about 0.7 percent in ordinary uranium, but it is a necessary fissionable material in the operation of a nuclear reactor using natural uranium.

Russia has agreed to blend about 500 tons of this enriched uranium with ordinary uranium and sell it to the United States as reactor fuel, removing it from the potential black market.

But in the end, ordinary uranium was cheaper, and 233 was not needed.

Ordinary uranium also proved to be much easier to work with than 233.

The same month, heavily armed Serbian troops, under the supervision of Russian, American and United Nations officials, flew 100 pounds of bomb-grade uranium from the Vinca nuclear reactor near Belgrade to Russia, where it will be blended with ordinary uranium and made unusable for weapons.

This exceeds the limits of ordinary reticence.

She touched the lives of ordinary readers.

within reach of ordinary homebuyers.

In several countries, government-sponsored research concentrated on processes that begin with ordinary metallic uranium.

It is one of the products of uranium fission.