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Science & Elements

plutonium

man-made weapons element

Today this word meansA man-made element used in nuclear weapons and reactors.

Coming after uranium (Uranus) and neptunium (Neptune), it inherited the name of Pluto, then the ninth planet.

Pluto is the Roman name of Hades. The king of the underworld ended up naming the most dangerous of substances.

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