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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
Garik Israelian

Meaning of "uranium" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD URANIUM

From New Latin, from Uranus²; from the fact that the element was discovered soon after the planet.
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PRONUNCIATION OF URANIUM

uranium  [jʊˈreɪnɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF URANIUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Uranium is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES URANIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

uranium

Uranium

Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with symbol U and atomic number 92. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weakly radioactive because all its isotopes are unstable. The most common isotopes of uranium are uranium-238 and uranium-235. Uranium has the second highest atomic weight of the primordially occurring elements, lighter only than plutonium. Its density is about 70% higher than that of lead, but not as dense as gold or tungsten. It occurs naturally in low concentrations of a few parts per million in soil, rock and water, and is commercially extracted from uranium-bearing minerals such as uraninite. In nature, uranium is found as uranium-238, uranium-235, and a very small amount of uranium-234. Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years, making them useful in dating the age of the Earth. Many contemporary uses of uranium exploit its unique nuclear properties.

Definition of uranium in the English dictionary

The definition of uranium in the dictionary is a radioactive silvery-white metallic element of the actinide series. It occurs in several minerals including pitchblende, carnotite, and autunite and is used chiefly as a source of nuclear energy by fission of the radioisotope uranium-235. Symbol: U; atomic no: 92; atomic wt: 238.0289; half-life of most stable isotope, 238U: 451 × 109 years; valency: 2-6; relative density: 18.95 ; melting pt: 1135°C; boiling pt: 4134°C.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH URANIUM


actinium
ækˈtɪnɪəm
actinouranium
ˌæktɪnəʊjʊˈreɪnɪəm
aluminium
ˌæljʊˈmɪnɪəm
calcaneum
kælˈkeɪnɪəm
chondrocranium
ˌkɒndrəʊˈkreɪnɪəm
condominium
ˌkɒndəˈmɪnɪəm
cranium
ˈkreɪnɪəm
delphinium
dɛlˈfɪnɪəm
drepanium
drɪˈpeɪnɪəm
endocranium
ˌɛndəʊˈkreɪnɪəm
epicranium
ˌɛpɪˈkreɪnɪəm
geranium
dʒɪˈreɪnɪəm
germanium
dʒɜːˈmeɪnɪəm
Herculaneum
ˌhɜːkjʊˈleɪnɪəm
pericranium
ˌpɛrɪˈkreɪnɪəm
sparganium
spɑːˈɡeɪnɪəm
succedaneum
ˌsʌksɪˈdeɪnɪəm
suppedaneum
səpəˈdeɪnɪəm
titanium
taɪˈteɪnɪəm
transuranium
trænzjʊˈreɪnɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE URANIUM

uranic
uranide
uranin
uraninite
uraniscus
uranism
uranite
uranitic
uranium hexafluoride
uranium series
uranium-235
uranium-bearing
uranographer
uranographic
uranographical
uranographist
uranography
uranology

WORDS THAT END LIKE URANIUM

ammonium
asplenium
depleted uranium
enriched uranium
helenium
Iconium
ivyleaf geranium
lemon geranium
millennium
omnium
pandemonium
plutonium
rose geranium
ruthenium
selenium
the millennium
trailing geranium
xenium
zirconium
zonal geranium

Synonyms and antonyms of uranium in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «uranium» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF URANIUM

Find out the translation of uranium to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of uranium from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «uranium» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

uranio
570 millions of speakers

English

uranium
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यूरेनियम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُورانِيُوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уран
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

urânio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইউরেনিয়াম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

uranium
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Uranium
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Uran
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウラニウム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우라늄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uranium
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

uranium
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

யுரேனியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

यूरेनियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uranyum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uranio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uran
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уран
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uraniu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ουράνιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uraan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uran
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uran
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of uranium

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «URANIUM»

The term «uranium» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.668 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «URANIUM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about uranium

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10 QUOTES WITH «URANIUM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word uranium.
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Yukiya Amano
Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.
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Hans Blix
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.
3
Bob Brown
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
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Michael Burgess
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
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Barton Gellman
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
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Jim Gerlach
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.
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James Hansen
With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.
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John Holdren
I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.
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Garik Israelian
Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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Winona LaDuke
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «URANIUM»

Discover the use of uranium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to uranium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into the valor, greed, genius, and folly of humanity.
Tom Zoellner, 2009
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.
Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, Esther Yazzie-Lewis, 2007
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Australia's Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy ...
This edited volume explores Australia's uranium trade by examining it across a range of domestic and international dimensions.
Michael Clarke, Stephan Frühling, Andrew O'Neil, 2011
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The New Uranium Mining Boom: Challenge and lessons learned
The book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VI) held in September 2011, in Freiberg, Germany.
Broder Merkel, Mandy Schipek, 2011
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Uranium Deposits Of The World
This volume gathers and presents a massive collection of data on the location, quality and accessibility of uranium resources in nearly every region of the globe.
Franz J. Dahlkamp, 2009
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Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall
Farm Hall was a comfortable, even civilized, prison, but it was bugged. This book contains the complete collection of transcripts that were made from the secret 1945 recordings, expertly annotated by Jeremy Bernstein.
‎2001
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Depleted Uranium: Properties, Uses, and Health Consequences
Focusing on current, peer-reviewed data, this volume is the only available compilation book on the current understanding of the potential health hazards of depleted uranium exposure.
C. Miller Alexandra, 2006
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Uranium, Mining and Hydrogeology
Subject of the book is Uranium and its migration in aquatic environments.
Broder Merkel, Andrea Hasche-Berger, 2008
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Uranium Seekers: A Photo-Essay Tribute to Miners (Working)
The, Uranium Seekers, saga began in 1976 when world-famous Hollywood, California photographer, Martin, was contracted to come to Utah and begin documenting, paying photographic tribute to, uranium miners, native Americans, and the Vanadium ...
Craig Evan Royce, 2012
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Uranium Resource Processing: Secondary Resources
This book concentrates on the processing of secondary sources for recovering uranium, a field which has gained in importance in recent years as it is environment-friendly and economically in tune with the philosophy of sustainable ...
Chiranjib Gupta, Harvinderpal Singh, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «URANIUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term uranium is used in the context of the following news items.
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The US may let Iran run hundreds of uranium centrifuges in a …
Instead of uranium, which can be enriched to be the fissile core of a nuclear weapon, any centrifuges permitted at Fordo would be fed elements such as zinc, ... «Business Insider, Mar 15»
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Exiled Iranian opposition: Tehran hiding secret uranium enrichment …
"Since 2008, the Iranian regime has secretly engaged in research and uranium enrichment with advanced... centrifuge machines at this site," Jafarzadeh said. «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Feb 15»
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Iran denies 'tentative uranium agreement' with US
Washington and Tehran came a step closer to agreeing on shipping part of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile to Russia, AP reported on Friday, citing diplomatic ... «RT, Jan 15»
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Iran's Uranium Stockpile Grows Before Deadline for Nuclear Deal
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium gas has grown by 8 percent to nearly 8.4 tonnes in about two months, U.N. atomic inspectors say, ... «Washington Free Beacon, Nov 14»
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Iran open to new US proposals on Tehran's uranium programme
With Iran refusing US demands that it gut its uranium enrichment programme, the two sides are discussing a new proposal that would leave much of Tehran's ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
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India uranium deal a boost for WA
WA's fledgling uranium sector will be a step closer to becoming an export industry when Tony Abbott signs an historic deal clearing the way for Australian ... «The West Australian, Sep 14»
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Iran completes process of eliminating enriched uranium
Iran has turned all of its enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms, the UN nuclear agency says. «BBC News, Jul 14»
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A Solution for the Iranian Uranium-Enrichment Puzzle
Iran's enrichment program has been the focus of international concern for more than a decade because gas centrifuge machines can be used to enrich uranium ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 14»
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Nuclear Talks Will Confront Iran's Future Capability to Enrich Uranium
WASHINGTON — As Iran and six world powers meet this week in Vienna to begin drafting language to resolve their nuclear standoff, negotiators say they are ... «New York Times, May 14»
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Navajo Nation secures $1B for uranium cleanup
Navajo miners work at the Kerr McGee Corp. uranium mine at Cove, Ariz., on the Navajo reservation in 1953. Kerr-McGee abandoned uranium mine sites, ... «Santa Fe New Mexican.com, Apr 14»

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