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It looked like a boring metal ball. Shiny, silvery, and roughly the size of a grapefruit. But in two separate lab accidents, it took the lives of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin without either of them touching it. But it didn't have to, because this ball, later named the Demon Core, was made of plutonium.
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