Word.ws English Dictionary

Purex

Purex noun: a chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, based on liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange.

Noun

Purex (uncountable)

  1. A chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, based on liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange.

Origin of Purex

Shortening of plutonium uranium extraction.

Questions about Purex

What does Purex mean?
Purex means a chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, based on liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange.
What part of speech is Purex?
Purex is a noun.

Words near Purex in the dictionary

  1. purest and simplest
  2. Puretic power block
  3. Puretic power blocks
  4. Purewal
  5. Purewals
  6. Purex
  7. purey
  8. pureys
  9. purfalcamine
  10. purfile
  11. purfiles

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Purex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Purex.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/purex. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.