Plutonium: Difference between revisions

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Plutonium is a man-made element used primarily in the cores of nuclear weapons^[1]. Gaius Baltar asks for the plutonium from one of the ship's nuclear warheads from Commander Adama to build his Cylon detector ^{(TRS: "Bastille Day")}. Baltar also mentions the use of tetrahydrocycline for the detector ^{(TRS: "Water")}.

The Red Moon's atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide, methane and argon ^{(TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again")}. Oxygen is mentioned several times throughout the series.

Chief Tyrol asks for copper tubing when some his deckhands fail to build a proper distiller ^{(TRS: "Litmus")}.

On Galactica, perishable goods are kept in titanium lockers ^{(TRS: "Final Cut")}.

Chromium is known to the Colonials by this name, since "chrome job" is a slang term for Cylon Centurions ^{(TRS: "Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance")}.

↑ The existence of this synthetic element means that the natural element it is derived from, uranium, exists in the world of the Re-imagined Series. (Etymological purists on the origins of the names of the Lords of Kobol may be annoyed that the Greek pantheon parallelism to the Lords of Kobol is disturbed again, for plutonium is named for Pluto, the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hades).

[1] The existence of this synthetic element means that the natural element it is derived from, uranium, exists in the world of the Re-imagined Series. (Etymological purists on the origins of the names of the Lords of Kobol may be annoyed that the Greek pantheon parallelism to the Lords of Kobol is disturbed again, for plutonium is named for Pluto, the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hades).

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-'''[[Wikipedia:Plutonium|Plutonium]]''' is a metallic, chemical, radioactive element.  It is the detonation charge used in the five remaining nuclear warheads in [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'s'' munitions following the [[Cylon attack]].
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-Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] asks for the plutonium from one of the warheads from Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] to build his [[Cylon detector]] ([[Bastille Day]]).
-==Note==
-[[Canon|Canonical]] information from several episodes (noted in detail in "[[The Farm]]" by [[Simon]]) indicate that the radiation effects from nuclear fallout on [[Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] appear identical with the classic radiation poisoning symptoms from plutonium here on the real-world Earth, strongly suggesting that the element is identical in both "universes." By extension, it is likely that [[Cylon]] nuclear weapons also use plutonium.
-Plutonium is a man-made element created by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons. The use of plutonium suggests that the natural element of uranium exists in the Re-imagined Series.
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