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uranium oxide
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noun Chemistry.
any of the compounds of uranium and oxygen, as UO2, UO3, U4O9, or U3O8.
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Origin of uranium oxide
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby uranium oxide
uranium 238, uranium 239, uranium dating, uranium dioxide, uranium hexafluoride, uranium oxide, uranium series, uranium trioxide, urano-, uranography, uranology
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A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerUranium oxide gives a green glass in the oxidising flame with borax or with sodic metaphosphate.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection|Alexander Wynter BlythThis little bottle contains about a pint of uranium oxide; that is to say, about fourteen ounces of the element uranium.
The World Set Free|Herbert George Wells