URANIUM, U (92)

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URANIUM

U (92)

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PHONETICS

Uranium is a silvery-white metal with 6 valence electrons and is weakly radioactive due to unstable isotopes (half-lives of the 6 naturally known isotopes, uranium-233 to uranium-238, varying between 69 years and 4.5 billion years).

ELEMENT BRIEF

1789 by Martin Klaproth, Germany.

DISCOVERY

From the name Uranus, the planet.

ETYMOLOGY

Uranium

ELEMENT

U

SYMBOL

92

ATOMIC NUMBER

7440-61-1

CAS NUMBER
element

ELEMENTAL SPECTRUM


Silver

ELEMENTAL COLOUR


-

REFRACTIVE INDEX


0.230

POISSON RATIO


12.495 cm³

MOLAR VOLUME


2.40G Pa, 23.686'2k Atm

BRINELL HARDNESS


6

MOHS HARDNESS


1.96G Pa, 19.343'7k Atm

VICKERS HARDNESS


3,155 m/s, Mach 9.198'3

SPEED OF SOUND


100.00G Pa, 986.923'3k Atm

BULK MODULUS


111.00G Pa, 1.095'5M Atm

SHEAR MODULUS


208.00G Pa, 2.052'8M Atm

YOUNG MODULUS


ALLOTROPES

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1,408.15 K, 1,135.00 °C

MELTING POINT


4,200.15 K, 3,927.00 °C

BOILING POINT


-

AUTOMATIC IGNITION


-

FLASHPOINT


-

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE


-

CRITICAL PRESSURE


27.000'000 W/(m K)

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY


0.000'013'9 K¯¹

THERMAL EXPANSION


116.00 J/(kg K)

SPECIFIC HEAT


14.000 kJ/mol

HEAT FUSION


420.000 kJ/mol

HEAT VAPORISATION


-

HEAT COMBUSTION


-

CURIE POINT


-

NEEL POINT


-

ADIABATIC INDEX


Solid

PHASE

Conductor

ELECTRICAL TYPE


3.60M S/m

CONDUCTIVITY


280.00n Ω.m

RESISTIVITY


0.680 K

SUPERCONDUCTING POINT


-

MAGNETIC TYPE


0.000'000'021'5

MASS SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'000'005'118'00

MOLAR SUSCEPTIBILITY


0.000'409'600'00

VOLUME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Actinide

CLASSIFICATION


238.028'910'5

ATOMIC WEIGHT


139 pm

ATOMIC RADIUS


170 pm

COVALENT RADIUS SINGLE BOND


134 pm

COVALENT RADIUS DOUBLE BOND


118 pm

COVALENT RADIUS TRIPLE BOND


240 pm

VAN DER WAALS RADIUS


[Rn]7s²5f³6d¹

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION


Orthorhombic, Primitive

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE


19.050'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS SOLID


17.300'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS LIQUID


-

DENSITY AS GAS


Cmcm

SPACE GROUP NAME


63

SPACE GROUP NUMBER


π/2, π/2 π/2

LATTICE ANGLES


285.37, 586.95 495.48 pm

LATTICE CONSTANTS

6

VALENCE


1.38

ELECTRONEGATIVITY


-

ELECTRON AFFINITY


IONISATION ENERGY

element element

0.000'000'02 %

UNIVERSE


0.000'000'8 %

METEORITES


0.000'000'1 %

SUN


0.000'18 %

EARTH CRUST


0.000'000'33 %

OCEANS


0.000'000'5 %

HUMANS

4.47 x 10⁹ Years

HALF LIFE


6.45 x 10⁹ Years

LIFETIME


6d¹ = 6, 2, -2, +1/2

QUANTUM NUMBERS


8.908'00 b σs

NEUTRON CROSS SECTION


7.570'00 b σa

NEUTRON MASS ABSORPTION


STABLE ISOTOPES

NONE


UNSTABLE ISOTOPES

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