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uranium series

American  
Also uranium-radium series

noun

Chemistry.

  1. the radioactive series that starts with uranium 238 and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 206.

uranium series British  

noun

  1. physics a radioactive series that starts with uranium-238 and proceeds by radioactive decay to lead-206

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They are the uranium series, the actinide series, and the thorium series.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Next, the team used a technique called uranium series dating to gauge the bone’s age.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 9, 2018

“I personally would never use uranium series dating of bones alone to assign age, it needs to be supported and consistent with other dating results,” said Dirk Hoffmann, an expert on uranium dating at Leipzig.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2017

Like other minerals of the uranium series it shows radio-activity.

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