uranic

¹ American  

[yoo-ran-ik] / yʊˈræn ɪk /

adjective

Chemistry.

1. of or containing uranium, especially in the tetravalent state.

2. containing uranium in a valence state higher than the corresponding uranous compound.

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uranic ² American  

[yoo-ran-ik] / yʊˈræn ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the heavens; astronomical.

   uranic principles.

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uranic ¹ British  

/ jʊˈrænɪk /

adjective

1. of or containing uranium, esp in a high valence state

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uranic ² British  

/ jʊˈrænɪk /

adjective

1. obsolete astronomical or celestial

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Etymology

Origin of uranic¹

First recorded in 1830–40; uran(ium) + -ic

Origin of uranic²

1855–60; < Greek ouran ( ós ) heaven + -ic

Example Sentences

Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber in it as well as the first Yank baseball player to turn up in a Surrealist picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furthermore, he proved that this had no connection with the phenomenon of phosphorescence, as both uranic and uranous salts were active and the latter show no phosphorescence.

From Project Gutenberg

To prepare the sensitizing solution, dissolve 20 parts of uranic nitrate and from 1 to 3 parts of tartaric acid in 100 parts of water, and add a small quantity of ferric tartrate, the proportion varying with the tint desired: an excess gives a blue black.

From Project Gutenberg

We give in the following lines the most interesting parts of the two papers of Mr. Burnett: * * * “The next class of processes are dependent on the sensitiveness to light of the salts of uranic oxide or sesquioxide of uranium, U2O3.”

From Project Gutenberg

I have used for the solution of the uranic oxide for this process a variety of acids with very similar results; the sensitiveness of the prepared paper to light varying much, however.

From Project Gutenberg