URANIUM
\jʊ͡əɹˈe͡ɪni͡əm], \jʊəɹˈeɪniəm], \j_ʊə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_iə_m]\
Definitions of URANIUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
By Princeton University
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a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Uranium. A radioactive element of the actinide series of metals. It has an atomic symbol U, atomic number 92, and atomic weight 238.03. U-235 is used as the fissionable fuel in nuclear weapons and as fuel in nuclear power reactors.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A hard nickel-white metallic element which possesses radioactive properties and is the probable basis of radium.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A metallic element discovered in 1789, eight years after the discovery of the planet Uranus, from which it was named. Symbol, U; sp. gr., 18.33; atomic weight, 240. The acetate has been used topically in coryza, and the nitrate internally in diabetes, but the salts of u. are of but little therapeutic importance.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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