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Was uranium-235 a very hard thing to extract?
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Uranium-235 constitutes only about 0.7% of natural uranium, making its extraction extremely difficult and resource-intensive. The Manhattan Project employed multiple complex enrichment techniques like gaseous diffusion and electromagnetic separation to isolate U-235 from the abundant U-238 isotope.