Sentences with 'uranium'

Example sentences and phrases with the word uranium and other words derived from it.

« Lead, for example, is the final element of the three naturally occurring radioactive families headed by uranium, actinium and thorium, but while uranium-derived lead has an atomic weight of 206, actinium- and thorium-derived lead weigh 207 and 208 respectively. »
« After that, progress accelerated in earnest. Within a few millennia, wood gave way to coal as a source of human energy, then coal was replaced by oil, and oil is now giving way to uranium 235 from nuclear power plants (already producing 20 per cent of the world's electricity). »
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