Element number 92 on the periodic table. Has an average atomic mass of 238.0 amu, 92 protons in its nucleus and 92 electrons orbiting around it. It has an electron ground state configuration of 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d10 5p6 6s2 4f14 5d10 6p6 7s2 5f3 6d1. It is the fourth element in the actinide series.

[Editor's note (Gz): Made factual correction 3/3/2002]

Uranium
Symbol: U
Atomic Number: 92
Atomic Weight: 238.029
Boiling Point: 4407 K
Melting Point: 1408 K
Density at 300K: 18.95 g/cm3
Covalent radius: 1.42
Atomic radius: ???
Atomic volume: 12.50 cm3/mol
First ionization potental: 6.05 V
Specific heat capacity: 0.12 J g-1 K-1
Thermal conductivity: 27.6 W m-1 K-1
Electrical conductivity: 3.6*106 Ω-1 m-1
Heat of fusion: 15.48 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization: 422.58 kJ/mol
Electronegativity: 1.38 (Pauling's)

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A late-night television show on Much Music USA. It showcases popular and upcoming heavy metal (hence the name) and death metal bands. Besides playing videos the show boasts a sexy goth chick host named Julia, who interviews famous rockers with her hand-held camcorder.

The show usually features standard heavy metal fare such as Disturbed,Cradle of Filth, Lamb of God, Mudvayne, and any other head-banging satanists that happen to be poplular at the time.

Over the last two years or so that the show has been on Julia has interviewed: Glenn Danzig, Soulfly, Metallica, System of a Down, Anthrax, and Black Label Society.

This season a spin-off show called Uranium Classics has come out, which is dedicated to playing nothing but the good old-school metal like Ozzy, Slayer, and Judas Priest.

U*ra"ni*um (?), n. [NL., from Uranus the planet. See Uranus.] Chem.

An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239. �x3c;--radioactive, U-235 isotope is used in atomic fission, in bombs or power plants --�x3e;

⇒ Uranium was discovered in the state of an oxide by Klaproth in 1789, and so named in honor of Herschel's discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781.

 

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