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Uranium ore.
Figure 8: Transmission electron micrograph of single uranium atoms and microcrystals obtained from a solution of uranyl acetate.
nuclear binding energies
Fission
Fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron
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Frank Harold Spedding
American chemist
Becquerel, Henri
Henri Becquerel
French physicist
Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
Cyril Stanley Smith
American metallurgist
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian physicist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
Fritz Strassmann
German chemist
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
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