depleted uranium

See also: depleted-uranium

English

Noun

depleted uranium (uncountable)

1. Uranium that contains a reduced (depleted) amount of the fissile isotope U-235 compared to natural uranium; it is used in applications where radioactivity is not needed.

   Synonym: DU

   Antonym: enriched uranium

Translations

uranium that contains reduced U-235

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貧鈾／贫铀 (zh) (pínyóu), 贫铀 (zh) (pínyóu)

• Finnish: köyhdytetty uraani
• French: uranium appauvri (fr) m
• German: abgereichertes Uran n
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• Icelandic: sneytt úran n, rýrt úran n
• Italian: uranio impoverito m
• Japanese: 劣化ウラン (rekka uran)
• Russian: обеднённый ура́н m (obednjónnyj urán)
• Swedish: utarmat uran n

Further reading

• depleted uranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia