Advance notice: Most of the knowledge involved in this chapter comes from publicly available materials from the China Institute of Engineering Physics website.
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Richard read, his gaze moving across the pages.
"The first method for purifying Uranium 235 is electromagnetic separation, which uses the principle of mass spectrometry for isotope separation.
The mass spectrometer is an instrument used in laboratories to analyze the mass of charged particles, allowing particles with different masses but the same charge to be deflected at different radii in a magnetic field, thereby achieving separation.