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Uranium

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND depleted reduced, eroded fusion when small nuclei combine to form a large nucleus, releasing energy leaching removing materials from solids by using water to rinse them out ore a naturally occurring mineral that exists in mineable quantities phosphorescent a material that absorbs radiation, in the form of light or electrons, and continues to emit light for a noticeable time after these emissions have stopped proportional existing in similar or like amounts