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cobalt bomb 
a device for the use of Cobalt-60 in the treatment of disease. See quotes.
- 1953 At the Chalk River atomic pile, meanwhile, the cobalt, after a year of bombardment by billions of neutrons from the uranium, had become highly charged -- one cobalt bomb unit has more than half the power of all the radium units used in medical work throughout the world.
- 1959 Ivy may not yet grow in its walls, but the University of Saskatchewan has already turned out the world's first cobalt bomb, our current prime minister and the best Rhodes scholars from anywhere.
- 1953 At the Chalk River atomic pile, meanwhile, the cobalt, after a year of bombardment by billions of neutrons from the uranium, had become highly charged -- one cobalt bomb unit has more than half the power of all the radium units used in medical work throughout the world.