Sunday, November 09, 2008

Share my pain

The setting: An exam in a non-science majors general science sort of course. The question: Natural uranium is 99.3% U-238 and 0.7% U-235. What is enriched uranium and what is is used for?


Here is a sampling of the most painful responses:


  • Enriched uranium is uranium made to be more polar
  • Enriched uranium is present in U-238 and used before
  • Enriched uranium is used for buildings
  • Enriched uranium is processed and used for cleaning

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Yikes. How many students in the class?

jokerine said...

I share your pain.