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uranium hexafluoride

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uranium hexa·​flu·​o·​ride | \ -ˌhek-sə-ˈflȯr-ˌīd How to pronounce uranium hexafluoride (audio) , -ˈflu̇r- \

Definition of uranium hexafluoride

: a volatile compound UF6 of uranium and fluorine that is used in one major process of enriching uranium in uranium 235

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Recent Examples on the Web In its long underground halls, centrifuges rapidly spin uranium hexafluoride gas to enrich uranium. — Fox News, "Iran nuclear site fire hit centrifuge facility, analysts say," 4 July 2020 In its long underground halls, centrifuges rapidly spin uranium hexafluoride gas to enrich uranium. — Fox News, "Iran nuclear site fire hit centrifuge facility, analysts say," 4 July 2020 In its long underground halls, centrifuges rapidly spin uranium hexafluoride gas to enrich uranium. — Fox News, "Iran nuclear site fire hit centrifuge facility, analysts say," 4 July 2020 There, centrifuges rapidly spin uranium hexafluoride gas to enrich uranium. — Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, "US analysts say fire at Iran nuclear site hit new centrifuge production plant," 3 July 2020 In its long underground halls, centrifuges rapidly spin uranium hexafluoride gas to enrich uranium. — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, "Analysts: Fire at Iran nuclear site hit centrifuge facility," 2 July 2020 The Manhattan Project—the crash effort to develop the atomic bomb—processed uranium by combining it with huge amounts of fluorine to form uranium hexafluoride. — Charles C. Mann, The Atlantic, "Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation?," 17 Mar. 2020 In its latest move to distance itself from the JCPOA, Iran on 6 November resumed enriching uranium hexafluoride gas at Fordow, producing material with a level of the fissile isotope uranium-235 suitable for commercial power reactors. — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, "Political tensions unravel plan to convert Iranian nuclear site to civilian uses," 9 Dec. 2019 The nuclear deal limited Iran to using only 5,060 first-generation IR-1 centrifuges to enrich uranium by rapidly spinning uranium hexafluoride gas. — NBC News, "Iran announces new violations of nuclear deal," 4 Nov. 2019

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First Known Use of uranium hexafluoride

1899, in the meaning defined above

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