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=Welcome to Mrs. Bowman's Science pages= __URANIUM __

NAME: URANIUM

SYMBOL: U

BOILING POINT: 3900 °C (7101 °F)]

MELTING POINT: 1132.2 °C (2070 °F)]

SPECIFIC GRAVITY/DENSITY: 19050 kg m -3

NUMBER OF PROTONS: 92

NUMBER OF ELECTRONS: 92

NUMBER OF NEUTRONS: 146

ATOMIC MASS: 238.02891

ATOMIC NUMBER: 92

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">ELECTRON CONFIGURATION: 2, 8, 18, 32, 21, 9, 2

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">NUMBER OF VALENCE ELECTRONS: 2

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">DICOVERED BY: MARTIN KALPROTH

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">DISCOVERED IN: 1789 IN GERMANY

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED: A YELLOW GLASS WHICH CONTAINED A LITTLE MORE THAN 1% OF URANIUM OXIDE FROM 79 AD WAS FOUND NEAR NAPLES WHICH IS IN ITALY. KAPROTH SAW AN UNKNOWN ELEMENT IN PITCHBLENDE AND TRIED TO ISOLATE IT IN 1789.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">WHERE IT WAS PRODUCED: LAGUNA PUEBLO, PITTSYLVANIA COUNTRY IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">HOW IT’S PRODUCED: MINED

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">HOW IT IS PURIFIED: DYNAMIC TREATMENT, OR ACID HEAP LEACHING

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">PHISICAL PROPERTIES: LIQUID RANGE, 2795 K, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">CRITICAL TEMP, NO DATA K

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">CHEMICAL PROPERTIES: IMMEDIATE GAMMA RAYS: 7 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">OXIDATION NUMBER: 6

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">UNUSUAL FACTS: URAMIUM IS FOUND IN SOME CERAMIC GLAZES, EVERY HUMAN HAS ABOUT .0001 MG OF URANIUM IN THERE BODY, URANIUM IS UDED TO FUEL THE POWERFUL LITTLE BOY ATOMIC BOMB

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERTIAL USES: URANIUM IS USED IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">COST OR VALUE: <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">$10 TO $15 PER 100 GRAMS

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2 COMMON CHEMICAL REACTIONS: REACTS WITH BACES, ACIDS AND WATER

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">MINERALS COMPOUNDS OR ORES IN WHICH FOUND: carnotite, torbernite, tyuyamunite, autunite, uranophane, and brannerite

<span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">URANIUM BOHR MODEL:





URANIUM IN ITS PURE FORM: