uranium
ura·nium (yo̵o rā′nē əm)
noun
a very hard, heavy, silver-colored, radioactive, metallic chemical element, one of the actinides, found only in combination, chiefly in pitchblende: symbol, U; at. no., 92: an isotope (uranium-235) undergoes neutron-induced fission and another, more plentiful, isotope (uranium-238) is used to produce plutonium
Etymology: ModL: so named (1789) by M. H. Klaproth (see tellurium), its discoverer, after Uranus, recently (1781) discovered planet + -ium
Converse of object
- deplete: Does the danger of depleted uranium also exist apart from the area of the south?
- enrich: You will not enrich uranium, he has told Iran.
- procure: The chances of al-Qaeda procuring uranium from India are quite high.
- import: The IAEA in March 2003 had not received any evidence about Iraqi attempts to import uranium.
- extract: The President declared: " Iran has discovered reserves and extracted uranium.
- occur: The U-235 isotope makes up 0.7 per cent of naturally occurring uranium.
Preposition: in
- reactor: We should set a goal of working to end the commercial use of highly enriched uranium in research reactors.
Adjective modifier
- highly-enriched: The suspect uranium enrichment plant, for example, could be used to produce highly-enriched uranium for weapons.
- low-enriched: Iran claims its centrifuge program is designed to produce low-enriched uranium, to support Iran's civil nuclear power program.
- natural: What North Korea has plenty of is natural uranium, which could supply nuclear power for hundreds of years.
Modifies a noun
- enrichment: For 25 years Khan directed Pakistan's uranium enrichment program.
- hexafluoride: The network sold uranium hexafluoride, the gas that the centrifuge process can transform into enriched uranium for nuclear bombs.
- ore: New fuel for nuclear reactors is produced from enriched uranium ore.
- ray: Products driven by uranium rays had spies then reported.
- munitions: Not to worry, the President has plenty of raw material for radioactive uranium munitions left.
- oxide: Odds are better of such a from uranium oxide.
Noun used with modifier
- weapons-grade: We will help nations end the use of weapons-grade uranium in research reactors.
- bomb-grade: While you are reading this, the Iranian reactor produces enriched bomb-grade uranium.
- low-grade: The IAEA left 1.8 tons of low-grade uranium in heavyweight sealed barrels at the Tuwaitha facilities.
- centrifuge: That program was based on gas centrifuge uranium enrichment.
It may be possibletoset up a nuclear reaction inuranium by which vast amounts of power could be released This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction ofextremely powerful bombs of a new type.
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