Definition of Uranium

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Uranium

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.

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Uranium Quotations

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
James Lovelock

In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
Jim Gerlach

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
Hans Blix

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
Michael Burgess

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
Tom Udall

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
Bob Brown

Uranium Translations

uranium in Afrikaans is uraan
uranium in Dutch is uranium
uranium in French is uranium
uranium in German is Uran
uranium in Italian is uranio
uranium in Spanish is uranio

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