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PLUTONIUM TRIGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plutonium trigger mean? 

PLUTONIUM TRIGGER (noun)
  The noun PLUTONIUM TRIGGER has 1 sense:

1. a steel or beryllium sphere containing plutonium 239 that triggers nuclear fission when compressed by explosivesplay

  Familiarity information: PLUTONIUM TRIGGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLUTONIUM TRIGGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

plutonium pit; plutonium trigger

Hypernyms ("plutonium trigger" is a kind of...):

trigger (a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen)

Holonyms ("plutonium trigger" is a part of...):

A-bomb; atom bomb; atomic bomb; fission bomb; plutonium bomb (a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239))


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