Sentence examples for lead to uranium from inspiring English sources

Geochronologists can separate recent lead loss due to some disturbance event, such as the reheating of the rock, from the normal rate of lead loss by plotting the ratio of lead to uranium in the sample.

However, he notes that at least one species of Citrobacter, a bacterium often found throughout the body, is known to accumulate uranium.,, But he says there is no way to know if this could lead to uranium toxicity in an infected person.

In the 1950s and 1960s, this area was the center of the uranium mining rush, as the United States government offered a premium for any ore discoveries that might lead to a uranium deposit that could be mined.

These studies, using a rat model, have demonstrated that DU pellets embedded in male rats led to elevated uranium concentrations in the testes, and that pellets embedded in females led to detectable uranium in the placenta and to "very low levels" of its accumulation in the fetus, though there was no "overt" teratology.

Equally problematically, some of the rare earths are likely to be found in deposits that also contain uranium, which could lead to the dispersal of uranium dust in a pristine environment.

In kidney, the ingestion of the highest level of contamination (120 mg/L) led to a uranium concentration of 352 ng U/g tissue.

Acute (Guglielmotti et al. 1984) or continuous (Diaz Sylvester et al. 2002) exposure to uranium may lead to decreased bone formation rate and also increased bone resorption (Ubios et al. 1991) in rats.

Fuel-cycle control Russia and the United States have spearheaded efforts to ensure that the growth in civil nuclear power does not lead to the spread of uranium enrichment and spent fuel-reprocessing facilities, which can provide either fuel for military nuclear power or fissile material for nuclear weapons.

The first pathway to proliferation, uranium enrichment, can lead to a nuclear weapon based on highly enriched uranium (see nuclear weapon: Principles of atomic (fission) weapons).

An uncontrolled temperature rise at the plant could lead to a meltdown of the uranium reactor core.

"These newest findings about the composition of the depleted uranium only lead to a minor change in the overall radiological situation and should therefore not cause any immediate alarm," said the agency's executive director, Klaus Töpfler.