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Word | Uranium |
a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons / An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239. / the chemical element of atomic number 92, a gray, dense radioactive metal used as a fuel in nuclear reactors., | |
Usage | ⇒ Uranium is used as a source of nuclear energy ⇒ It is not possible, however, to construct weapons directly out of uranium or slightly enriched uranium . |
Synonyms | radium, U, gold, lead, metal, plutonium, radon, silver, element, gallium, iron, lithium, magnesium, aluminum, atomic number 92, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, |
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