Uranium Synonyms

yo͝o-rānē-əm
A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. u
  2. atomic number 92

Words Related to Uranium

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. periodic-table
  2. plutonium
  3. U235
  4. low-enriched
  5. weapons-grade
  6. heu
  7. u-235
  8. bomb-grade
  9. highly-enriched
  10. high-enriched
  11. americium
  12. yellow-cake

Uranium Sentence Examples

  • Uranium is chemically related to chromium, molybdenum and tungsten.

  • The only practically available raw material for 'the extraction of uranium is pitchblende (q.v.).

  • The mother liquor includes generally more or less of nickel, cobalt, zinc and other heavy metals, which, as Wailer showed, can be removed as insoluble sulphides by the addition of ammonium sulphide; uranium, under the circumstances, is not precipitated by this reagent.

  • The sulphates are treated with water, which dissolves the uranium and other soluble salts, while silica, lead sulphate, &c., remain; these are removed by filtration.

  • In the same year as Klaproth detected uranium, he also isolated zirconia or zirconium oxide from the mineral variously known as zircon, hyacinth, jacynth and jargoon; but he failed to obtain the metal, this being first accomplished some years later by Berzelius, who decomposed the double potassium zirconium fluoride with potassium.

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