What the heck is depleted uranium?

Subject: What the heck is depleted uranium?

Date: Thu Jul 10 21:43:49 2003
Posted by Benjamin
Grade level: 10-12 School: Yellow Springs High School
City: Yellow Springs State/Province: Ohio Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 1057891429.Ch

Message:


I keep hearing in the news that the the army uses depleted uranium. . . Would 
that be some form of lead?  I understand that this would quite dense and hard 
but out of the 106+ elements certainly there would something (ahem) "safer" to 
use.

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