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Uranium   /jərˈeɪniəm/   Listen
Uranium

noun
1.
A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons.  Synonyms: atomic number 92, U.



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"Uranium" Quotes from Famous Books



... making the rounds, I guess," the general said. "He was over at AEC. Told them some sort of tale about knowing where there were vast uranium deposits. It was the AEC that told me he was ...
— Project Mastodon • Clifford Donald Simak

... replied, falling into the role of a science-fiction spaceman. "We might pick up the latest gossip on that uranium strike on Venus, or the discovery ...
— The Scarlet Lake Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite, uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing; food processing; brewing; ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... precipitating the compounds of the protoxide and estimating the acid, that of the phosphate is by far the most accurate, titrating with uranium solution; 99.82 is a nearly constant average with me, much depending on the operator's familiarity ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various



Words linked to "Uranium" :   metallic element, uraninite, uranium 235, metal, pitchblende



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