Translations:Zinc/88/en

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Zn, the most abundant isotope of zinc, is very susceptible to neutron activation, being transmuted into the highly radioactive ⁶⁵
Zn, which has a half-life of 244 days and produces intense gamma radiation. Because of this, zinc oxide used in nuclear reactors as an anti-corrosion agent is depleted of ⁶⁴
Zn before use, this is called depleted zinc oxide. For the same reason, zinc has been proposed as a salting material for nuclear weapons (cobalt is another, better-known salting material). A jacket of isotopically enriched ⁶⁴
Zn would be irradiated by the intense high-energy neutron flux from an exploding thermonuclear weapon, forming a large amount of ⁶⁵
Zn significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's fallout.