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Which element with the atomic number 94 was used in the core of the bomb detonated at Nagasaki in 1945?

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✅ Correct Option: 3

Element 94 is plutonium. The Nagasaki bomb, Fat Man, used an implosion design around a plutonium-239 core, unlike the uranium-235 gun-type bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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