Sentence examples for uranium radioactive from inspiring English sources

It is now known that uranium, radioactive in all its isotopes, consists naturally of a mixture of uranium-238 (99.27 percent, 4,510,000,000-year half-life), uranium-235 (0.72 percent, 713,000,000-year half-life), and uranium-234 (0.006 percent, 247,000-year half-life).

They named it brevium, afterward uranium X2, because it was a short-lived member of the uranium radioactive decay series.

Total 210Pb activity in the recent sediments comes primarily from two sources: supported (autochthonous) 210Pb is produced by the radioactive decay of uranium radioactive chain isotopes in sediments and excess (allochthonous) 210Pb is produced by the decay of 222Rn, mostly in the atmosphere, and is then deposited with the sediments.

Uranium (U), radioactive chemical element of the actinoid series of the periodic table, atomic number 92.

Uranium is radioactive and decays by emitting alpha particles (two protons and two neutrons bound together).

Before it was discovered that uranium is radioactive, it was widely used to colour glass, and pottery and glazes.

But Clark argues that uranium's radioactive properties only become dangerous once it is brought up out of the ground and exposed to air and water.

After the ore is removed, the process of crushing the rocks and extracting uranium produces radioactive debris called tailings, which are stored nearby.

One gram of uranium (in radioactive equilibrium) contains only 2 gram of 227Ac.

7. Poisoning Iraqi Society The U.S. military dropped thousands of bombs across Iraq laced with depleted uranium, the radioactive waste produced from manufacturing nuclear fuel.

A published study in 2010 demonstrated that, chemical fertilizers used in Sri Lanka are contaminated with cadmium, chromium, uranium and radioactive substances [ 40].