atomic number 92

Noun
  1. A heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element;
    Occurs in many isotopes;
    Used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons (synset 114684622)
    is a type of: metal, metallic element - any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
    subtypes:
    • uranium 235 - a uranium isotope with mass number 235; capable of sustaining chain reactions
    • uranium 238 - the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239
    substance meronym: pitchblende, uraninite - a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore
    same as: u, uranium

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