uranium

English

Chemical element
U
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Etymology

After Uranus (the planet), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ūrā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹeɪniəm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

uranium (countable and uncountable, plural uraniums)

1. The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.

Derived terms

terms derived from uranium (noun)

• actino-uranium
• depleted uranium
• enriched uranium
• eka-uranium
• natural uranium
• triuranium octaoxide
• uran-
• uranate
• 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
• Arabic: يُورَانْيُوم m (yuranyum)
• Armenian: ուրան (hy) (uran)
• Asturian: uraniu m
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: uranioa
• Belarusian: ура́н m (urán)
• Breton: uraniom (br)
• Bulgarian: ура́н (bg) m (urán)
• Catalan: urani (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏳᏪᏂᎥᎻ (yuwenivmi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈾／铀 (yau⁴)

  Mandarin: 鈾／铀 (zh) (yóu), 铀 (zh) (yóu)

• Cornish: uranyum
• Czech: uran (cs) m
• Danish: uran (da) c or n
• Dutch: uranium (nl) n, uraan (nl) n
• Esperanto: uranio (eo)
• Estonian: uraan (et)
• Faroese: uran n
• Finnish: uraani (fi)
• French: uranium (fr) m
• Friulian: urani
• Galician: uranio (gl) m
• Georgian: ურანი (urani)
• German: Uran (de) n
• Greek: ουράνιο (el) n (ouránio)
• Gujarati: કિરણાતુ (kirṇātu)
• Hebrew: אורניום (he) (urányum)
• Hindi: किरणातु (kirṇātu)
• Hungarian: urán (hu)
• Icelandic: úran (is) n
• Inuktitut: ᓄᖑᑦᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ (nongotsoittoq)
• Irish: úráiniam
• Italian: uranio (it) m
• Japanese: ウラン (ja) (uran)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kashubian: ùran
• Khmer: អ៊ុយរ៉ាញ៉ូម (uyraanyoum)
• Korean: 우라늄 (ko) (uranyum), 우란 (uran)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latin: uranium (la)
• Latvian: urāns m
• Lithuanian: uranas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Uran
• Macedonian: ура́ниум m (uránium)
• Malay: uranium
• Maltese: uranjum
• Manx: uraanium
• Maori: konukarihi
• Mongolian: уран (mn) (uran)
• Nahuatl: ilhuicateotepoztli
• Navajo: łeetsoh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uran n

  Nynorsk: uran (nn) n

• Occitan: urani m
• Persian: اورانیوم (fa) (orâniyom)
• Polish: uran (pl) m
• Portuguese: urânio (pt) m
• Romanian: uraniu (ro) n
• Russian: ура́н (ru) m (urán)
• Santali: ᱭᱩᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱢ (yureniyam)
• Scottish Gaelic: uràiniam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уран m, ураниј m

  Roman: uran m, uranij (sh) m

• Slovak: urán (sk) m
• Slovene: uran (sl) m
• Spanish: uranio (es) m
• Swahili: urani
• Swedish: uran (sv)
• Tagalog: uranyo
• Tajik: уран (uran)
• Tamil: அடரியம் (aṭariyam)
• Telugu: గురుత్వాకర్షణము (gurutvākarṣaṇamu)
• Thai: ยูเรเนียม (yuu-ree-nîiam)
• Turkish: uranyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ура́н (uk) m (urán)
• Uzbek: uran (uz)

  Cyrillic: уран (uz) (uran)

• Vietnamese: urani (vi), uran
• Volapük: luranin (vo)
• Welsh: uraniwm
• West Frisian: uranium
• Yiddish: אוראַניום m (uranyum)

See also

• Template:projectlink
• autunite
• coffinite
• green salt
• hex
• oralloy
• pitchblende
• torbernite
• tuballoy
• yellowcake

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Danish

Noun

uranium

1. Alternative form of uran

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Dutch

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

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin uranium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌyˈraː.ni.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ura‧ni‧um

Noun

uranium n (uncountable)

1. uranium [from 1790s]

Synonyms

• uraan

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁa.njɔm/

• Audio:

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Noun

uranium m (uncountable)

1. uranium

Further reading

• “uranium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /uːˈra.ni.um/, [uːˈräniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uˈra.ni.um/, [uˈräːnium]

Noun

ūranium n (genitive ūraniī); second declension

1. uranium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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

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

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English uranium, from Uranus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uraniom], [uraniəm], [jureniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

uranium

1. uranium (uranium (element))