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and Glenn Seaborg at the University of California produced 28 ug of plutonium in the 60-inch cyclotron there in May 1941 and found that it had 1.7 times the thermal neutron capture cross section of uranium-235. At the time plutonium-239 had been produced in minute quantities using cyclotrons, but it was not possible to produce

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