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To: Pelham

Not quite right. Yellowcake is the partially processed (but not enriched) ore. It’s the precipitate from various solvents used to concentrate Uranium scattered through the ore, usually uranium oxides, enough to begin serious refining.. The U238/235 part is right though (that’s the enriching part).


99 posted on 10/15/2014 8:11:33 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Thanks for the clarification.


123 posted on 10/17/2014 9:44:04 AM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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