uranium
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7.3
- noun
- /jʊˈreɪniəm/
- Specialized
:
uranio
- So here's the abundance of uranium in our earth.
- uranium enrichment
- enriched uranium
- enriched uranium
That just isn't enough uranium on this planet.
- That just isn't enough uranium on this planet.
- This will eventually be a salt of uranium or a salt of thorium.
- They told them those parts that they bought were not for purifying uranium or plutonium.
- There's also uranium in the crust.
- Very clear the bad guy has is enriching their uranium.
- It's a fact that it costs more money to reprocess spent fuel compared to using uranium in fresh fuel.
- So this really implies that Iran is still working on enriching nuclear grade uranium.
- There is some heat in the deep interior of the Earth that comes from the decay of uranium.
- But the place I'm most concerned about is, you know, you talked about the lithium, but there's uranium mines too.
- Now going beyond uranium, we made those in the laboratory.
- Coal, oil, diamonds, natural gas, uranium, it's got everything basically.
- There isn't much that you can find about uranium, essentially nothing in the BP book.
Examples
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And we will come there with the uranium assets, too.
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The cartel allowed India access to uranium imports for the first time.
Academic text (2012) -
You can take natural uranium and you can hold it in your hands.
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You know, those college kids turn up oil or uranium or something out there.
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More specifically, the conversion of lead into uranium.
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I brought up legislation to pretty much stop uranium mining in the southern Black Hills.
Academic text (2017) -
Their fuel would not be as dangerous as the uranium used in nuclear fission power plants.
Academic text (1999) -
And in a recent inspection in Iran, they found a traces of uranium that were way too pure for civilian use.
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Here's the amount of uranium Oak Ridge refined all of last month.
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Uranium is used as a fuel in nuclear reactors due to its uranium properties.
Synonyms
10
8.0
The symbol for the metal uranium used as nuclear fuel
A heavy radioactive metal used as fuel in nuclear reactors and in weapons
Compounds
- Specialized
2
7.2
A type of uranium with mass number 235 that can sustain nuclear chain reactions used in power plants and bombs
- Specialized
A common form of uranium that can change into plutonium-239 used as nuclear fuel when it absorbs neutrons
How Radioactive
Surface Forms
Morphology
uranium = Uranus (opaque) = uran + ium
The word is formally built from the name of the planet Uranus plus the scientific suffix -ium, but most learners cannot infer the element meaning from that form alone.
Etymology
Uranium is named after the planet Uranus, because the new metal was discovered soon after that planet was found and scientists gave it the planet's name; that's a helpful way to remember its origin. That's why uranium is the name for the heavy, radioactive metal used as fuel in nuclear power.