uranium

English

Chemical element
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Etymology

After Uranus (the planet).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

uranium (uncountable)

1. The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U.

Derived terms

terms derived from uranium (noun)

actino-uranium depleted uranium enriched uranium eka-uranium natural uranium triuranium octaoxide uran- uraniate uranic uraniferous uraninite uranite uranium-232 uranium-233 uranium-234 uranium-235 uranium-238 uranium-239 uranium-240 uranium acetate uranium-bloom uranium bomb uranium borohydride uranium dioxide

uranium fission uranium-green uranium hexafluoride uranium I uranium II uranium lead uranium-lead dating uranium nitrate uranium-ocher, uranium-ochre uranium-orange uranium oxide uranium phosphate uranium series uranium tetrafluoride uranium-thorium dating uranium trioxide uranium vitriol uranium X, uranium X1 uranium X2 uranium Y uranium-yellow uranium Z urano- uranous uranyl

Related terms

terms related to uranium

Urania Uranian

uranate

Translations

uranium (element)

• Afrikaans: uraan (af)
• Albanian: urani (sq)
• Arabic: يورانيوم (ar) (yurányum) m
• Armenian: ուրան (hy) (uran)
• Asturian: uraniu (ast) m
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: uranioa (eu)
• Belarusian: уран (be) (urán) m
• Breton: uraniom (br)
• Bulgarian: уран (bg) (urán) m
• Catalan: urani (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏳᏪᏂᎥᎻ (chr) (yuwenivmi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈾 (yau4)

  Mandarin: 鈾 (cmn), 铀 (cmn) (yóu)

• Cornish: uranyum
• Czech: uran (cs) m
• Danish: uran (da)
• Dutch: uranium (nl) n, uraan (nl) n
• Esperanto: uranio (eo)
• Estonian: uraan (et)
• Faroese: uran (fo) n
• Finnish: uraani (fi)
• French: uranium (fr) m
• Friulian: urani
• Galician: uranio (gl) m
• Georgian: ურანი (ka) (urani)
• German: Uran (de) n
• Greek: ουράνιο (el) (ouránio) n
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אורניום (he) (urányum)
• Hindi: किरणातु (hi) (kiranātu)
• Hungarian: urán (hu)
• Icelandic: úran (is) n
• Irish: úráiniam (ga)
• Italian: uranio (it) m
• Japanese: ウラン (ja) (uran), 鈾 (ja)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kashubian: ùran (csb)
• Khmer: អ៊ុយរ៉ាញ៉ូម (km) (uyraanyoum)

• Korean: 우라늄 (ko) (uranyum), 우란 (ko) (uran)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یورانیۆم (ku) (yuranuom)

• Latin: uranium (la)
• Latvian: urāns (lv) m
• Lithuanian: uranas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Uran (lb)
• Macedonian: ураниум (mk) (uránium) m
• Malay: uranium (ms)
• Maltese: uranjum (mt)
• Manx: uraanium (gv)
• Mongolian: уран (mn) (uran)
• Navajo: łéétsoh
• Norwegian: uran (no)
• Persian: اورانیوم (fa) (urânyum)
• Polish: uran (pl) m
• Portuguese: urânio (pt) m
• Romanian: uraniu (ro) n
• Russian: уран (ru) (urán) m
• Scottish Gaelic: uràiniam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уран (sh) m, ураниј (sh) m

  Roman: uran (sh) m, uranij (sh) m

• Slovak: uran (sk) m
• Slovene: uran (sl) m
• Spanish: uranio (es) m
• Swahili: urani (sw)
• Swedish: uran (sv)
• Tajik: уран (tg) (uran)
• Tamil: அடரியம் (ta) (adariyam)
• Telugu: గురుత్వాకర్షణము (te) (gurutvākarṣaṇamu)
• Thai: ยูเรเนียม (th) (yūrēniam)
• Turkish: uranyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: уран (uk) (urán) m
• Uzbek: uran (uz)

  Cyrillic: уран (uz)

• Vietnamese: urani (vi), uran (vi)
• Volapük: luranin (vo)
• Welsh: uraniwm (cy)
• West Frisian: uranium

See also

• Uranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• autunite
• coffinite
• green salt
• hex
• oralloy
• pitchblende
• torbernite
• tuballoy
• yellowcake

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
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Pronunciation

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Noun

uranium n (uncountable)

1. uranium

Synonyms

• uraan

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /y.ʁa.njɔm/

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Noun

uranium m (uncountable)

1. uranium

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

ūranium (genitive ūraniī); n, second declension

1. uranium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	ūranium	ūrania
genitive	ūraniī	ūraniōrum
dative	ūraniō	ūraniīs
accusative	ūranium	ūrania
ablative	ūraniō	ūraniīs
vocative	ūranium	ūrania

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
U	Previous: protaktinium (Pa)
	Next: neptunium (Np)

Etymology

From English uranium, from Uranus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [uraniom], [uraniəm], [jureniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

uranium

1. uranium (uranium (element))