uranium
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
uranium /jʊˈreɪnɪəm/
▶noun the chemical element of atomic number 92, a grey dense radioactive metal used as a fuel in nuclear reactors. (Symbol: U)
'uranium' also found in these Oxford entries:
actinium
- advanced gas-cooled reactor
- autunite
- breeder
- calutron
- carnotite
- depleted uranium
- enrich
- magnox
- MOX
- neptunium
- protactinium
- titanium
- transuranic
- U
- unenriched
- uraninite
- urano-
- yellowcake
