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HEAVY METAL

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Uranium Is the Biggest Elements

Uranus is the heaviest element that occurs naturally, at least. The thing you need to do with the nuclear bomb is to break an atom apart. And uranium, like, i think of uranium like a guy who's walking was like a ton of grocery bags. You know, he's just holding way too many bags,. He's going to drop a bag. That's basicl uranium. But if you can put a thousand uranium dudes in a parking lot overfilled with grocery bags, and if you just, like, threw an apple at one of those guys, or threw a grocery bag at one ofthose bas rigt, that dud’s going to drop the bag

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