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Definition of Plutonium trigger

1. Noun. A steel or beryllium sphere containing plutonium 239 that triggers nuclear fission when compressed by explosives.

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Literary usage of Plutonium trigger

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1. Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: The Environmental Legacy of by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"On a cold morning in December. workers at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado loaded the last plutonium "trigger" for a nuclear warhead into a tractor trailer ..."

2. Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: The Environmental Legacy of by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"On a cold morning in December. workers at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado loaded the last plutonium "trigger" for a nuclear warhead into a tractor trailer ..."

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