uranide

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noun

Any of the transuranium elements immediately following uranium in the periodic table.

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Meanings

nounuranide (plural uranides)

plural uranides

  1. chemistryAny of the transuranium elements immediately following uranium in the periodic table.

    It is suggested that the lanthanides should be in the sixth period and uranides in the seventh, divided into uranides (U-Am) and curides (Cm-Lw).

    1964, Nuclear Science Abstracts, volume 18, page 4231
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    The family of the uranides presents only a single substance put to any use. This is the pechurane or protoxide of uranium used in laboratories for the preparation of the different oxides of this metal.

    1834, Conrad Malte-Brun, Principles of Mathematical, Physical and Political Geography, page 198

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