radiouranium

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noun

radioactive uranium.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounradiouranium (uncountable)
  1. uncountableradioactive uranium.

    The determination of radiouranium is discussed in section 12.5.16.8.

    2013, T R Crompton, Determination of Metals in Natural and Treated Water, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 744
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    The whole story of the line of descent carries us from Uranium through Radiouranium, Uranium X, Ionium, Radium, Emanation, and its successive daughter substances to Polonium, and then (with just a possibility of doubt), to lead.

    1923, Henry Smith Williams, Exploring the atom, page 185

    In January 1978, a Soviet RTG satellite, Kosmos 954, reentered the atmosphere over Canada and spread radiouranium across parts of that country (Richmond 1989).

    2000, Ronald Eisler, Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment: Health Hazards to Humans, Plants, and Animals, Three Volume Set, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1720

Origin

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