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of a quality adequate for use in weapons (especially in weapons of mass destruction)
weapons-grade anthrax
weapons-grade plutonium -
extremely strong or concentrated or durable
industrial-strength detergent
weapons-grade salsa
How To Use weapons-grade In A Sentence
- Included in those facilities, say analysts, is a process line for turning uranium ore into yellowcake, the first step in the process towards enriching it into weapons-grade material.
- The highly toxic material can be enriched into weapons-grade material if it is fed into nuclear centrifuges.
- weapons-grade anthrax
- Video Even if Pyongyang doesn't seek to sell weapons-grade materials such as reprocessed plutonium, Pentagon officials say just the possibility it might sell nuclear-weapons designs poses a security challenge to the U.S. Tests Point to Spread of Weapons Trade
- Depleted uranium is a by-product of the process in which uranium is enriched to become reactor fuel or weapons-grade material.
- Previously, it was believed by the International Atomic Energy Agency to hold uranium only for research purposes and no weapons-grade radioactive materials.
- Operating from 1950 until the fire in 1957, they converted uranium to weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear bombs.
- Denying terrorists access to nuclear weapons and weapons-grade material is thus a challenge to nations' willpower and determination, not to their technical capabilities.
- But not his eyes. His eyes were young and bright, their weapons-grade intensity intact.
- But what it might lack in amenities, the lodge makes up for in the volcanic views, blizzards of butterflies, and the weapons-grade margaritas. Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time