uranium

English

Chemical element
U
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Etymology

After Uranus (the planet), +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ūrā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹeɪniəm/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

uranium (countable and uncountable, plural uraniums)

2. The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U. A radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.

   Hyponyms: NU, natural uranium; enriched uranium; LEU, low-enriched uranium, HALEU, high-assay low-enriched uranium, SEU, slightly enriched uranium, HEU, highly enriched uranium; DU, depleted uranium

   • 2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN‎:

     The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades.

Derived terms

• actino-uranium
• depleted uranium
• eka-uranium
• enriched uranium
• highly-enriched uranium
• low-enriched uranium
• natural uranium
• slightly-enriched uranium
• slightly enriched uranium
• triuranium octaoxide
• uran-
• uranate
• uraniate
• uranic
• uraniferous
• uraninite
• uranite
• uranitic
• uranium-232
• uranium-233
• uranium-234
• uranium-235
• uranium-238
• uranium-239
• uranium-240
• uranium acetate
• uranium-bloom
• uranium bomb
• uranium borohydride
• uranium dioxide
• uranium fission
• uranium glass
• uranium-green
• uranium hexafluoride
• uranium I
• uranium II
• uranium lead
• uranium-lead dating
• uranium nitrate
• uranium nitride
• uranium-ocher, uranium-ochre
• uranium-orange
• uranium oxide
• uranium phosphate
• uranium series
• uranium tetrafluoride
• uranium-thorium dating
• uranium trioxide
• uranium vitriol
• uranium X₂
• uranium X, uranium X₁
• uranium Y
• uranium-yellow
• uranium Z
• urano-
• uranous
• uranyl

Related terms

• uranate
• Urania
• urania
• Uranian

Translations

uranium (element)

Afrikaans: uraan (af) Albanian: urani ? Arabic: يُورَانِيُوم m (yūrāniyūm), أُورَانِيُوم m (ʔūrāniyūm) Armenian: ուրան (hy) (uran) Asturian: uraniu (ast) m Azerbaijani: uran Basque: uranioa Belarusian: ура́н m (urán) Breton: uraniom (br) ? Bulgarian: ура́н (bg) m (urán) Catalan: urani (ca) m Cherokee: ᏳᏪᏂᎥᎻ (yuwenivmi) Chinese: Cantonese: 鈾 / 铀 (jau4-2) Mandarin: 鈾 / 铀 (zh) (yóu) Cornish: uraniom m Czech: uran (cs) m Danish: uran (da) c or n Dutch: uranium (nl) n, uraan (nl) n Esperanto: uranio (eo) Estonian: uraan (et) Faroese: uran n Finnish: uraani (fi) French: uranium (fr) m Friulian: urani ? Galician: uranio (gl) m Georgian: ურანი (urani) German: Uran (de) n Greek: ουράνιο (el) n (ouránio) Gujarati: કિરણાતુ ? (kirṇātu) Hebrew: אורניום (he) m (urányum) Hindi: किरणातु ? (kirṇātu) Hungarian: urán (hu) Icelandic: úran (is) n Inuktitut: ᓄᖑᑦᓱᐃᑦᑐᖅ (nongotsoittoq) Irish: úráiniam m Italian: uranio (it) m Japanese: ウラン (ja) (uran) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Kashubian: ùran ? Khmer: អ៊ុយរ៉ាញ៉ូម (uyraanyoum) Korean: 우라늄 (ko) (uranyum), 우란 (uran) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: یورانیۆم (îwranyom) Latin: uranium (la) n Latvian: urāns m Lithuanian: uranas (lt) m Luxembourgish: Uran ? Macedonian: ура́ниум m (uránium) Malay: uranium Maltese: uranju m Manx: uraaniu m Maori: konukarihi Mongolian: уран (mn) (uran) Nahuatl: ilhuicateotepoztli Navajo: łeetsoh Norwegian: Bokmål: uran n Nynorsk: uran (nn) n Occitan: urani (oc) m Ottoman Turkish: اورانیوم (ūrāniyūm) Persian: اورانیوم (fa) (orâniyom) Polish: uran (pl) m Portuguese: urânio (pt) m Romanian: uraniu (ro) n Russian: ура́н (ru) m (urán) Santali: ᱭᱩᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱢ (yureniyam) Scottish Gaelic: uranium m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: уран m, у̀ра̄нӣј m Roman: uran m, ùrānīj (sh) m Slovak: urán (sk) m Slovene: uran (sl) m Spanish: uranio (es) m Swahili: urani (sw) ?, uraniamu Swedish: uran (sv) n Tagalog: uranyo Tajik: уран (uran) Tamil: அடரியம் (aṭariyam), யுரேனியம் (ta) (yurēṉiyam) Telugu: గురుత్వాకర్షణము (gurutvākarṣaṇamu) Thai: ยูเรเนียม (yuu-ree-nîiam) Turkish: uranyum (tr) Ukrainian: ура́н (uk) m (urán) Uzbek: uran (uz) Cyrillic: уран (uz) (uran) Vietnamese: urani (vi), uran (vi) Volapük: luranin (vo) Welsh: uraniwm m West Frisian: uranium ? Yiddish: אוראַניום m (uranyum)

See also

• uranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• autunite
• coffinite
• green salt
• hex
• oralloy
• pitchblende
• torbernite
• tuballoy
• yellowcake

Danish

Noun

uranium

1. alternative form of uran

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

uranium

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
U
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Next: neptunium (Np)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin uranium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌyˈraː.ni.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ura‧ni‧um

Noun

uranium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. uranium [from 1790s]

Synonyms

• uraan

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

uranium

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁa.njɔm/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

uranium m (uncountable)

1. uranium

Further reading

• “uranium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

uranium

Wikipedia ^la

Chemical element
U
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Next: neptunium (Np)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈra.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈraː.ni.um]

Noun

ūranium n (genitive ūraniī); second declension

1. uranium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ūranium	ūrania
genitive	ūraniī	ūraniōrum
dative	ūraniō	ūraniīs
accusative	ūranium	ūrania
ablative	ūraniō	ūraniīs
vocative	ūranium	ūrania

Related terms

• Ūranus
• -ius - -ium

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

uranium

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
U
Previous: protaktinium (Pa)
Next: neptunium (Np)

Etymology

From English uranium, from Uranus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uraniom], [uraniəm], [jureniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

uranium

1. uranium (uranium (element))