uranious

comparative more uranious · superlative most uranious

1. Of or containing uranium.

   When the air becomes uranious / We will all go simultaneous

   1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer

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   This differs from the previous process in that the gallic acid, in the one case, reduces the silver solution to the state of metallic silver ; and, in the other case, the uranious image itself reduces it to the state of silver oxide.

   1883 January, Captain Abney, “Recent Advances in Photography”, in Popular Science, volume 22, number 19, →ISSN, page 398

   Our action's spontaneous in atoms uranious / Or radious, actinious or thorious : / But for others, the gleam of a heaven-sent beam / Must encourage their efforts laborious.

   1905 December 7, W. R., “The Death-Knell of the Atom”, in Nature, volume 73, number 1884, →ISSN, page 132

2. chemistryuranous.