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Does plutonium glow orange?

David L. Avery  Follow

Not intrinsically. Certain physical configurations of plutonium-238 (not the nuclear fuel Pu-239) can be hot enough from nuclear decay to glow red-orange in the same way as an electric stove burner does.

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