Crossword-Solution: URANIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uranium | n. | An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with URANIUM (5)
Namibia is the fourth-largest exporter of nonfuel minerals in Africa and the world's fifth-largest producer of uranium.
Uranium production grew rapidly in the mid-1970s, but tapered off in the early 1980s, when world prices declined.
The depressed demand for uranium has contributed to an overall sluggishness in the economy, a severe trade imbalance, and a mounting external debt.
Further investigation demonstrated conclusively that the bit drops were due to alpha particle emissions from thorium (and to a much lesser degree uranium) in the encapsulation material.
Since it is impossible to eliminate these radioactives (they are uniformly distributed through the earth's crust, with the statistically insignificant exception of uranium lodes) it became obvious that you have to design memories to withstand these hits.
Quotes with URANIUM (3)
You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.
Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo. The other day I came across one of her ruminations printed in a magazine devoted to the writings of schoolchildren. It said: “If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet, Earth, and seek uranium, rubies, and gold. I'd look for Unspoiled Monsters. Then I'd move to the country. --Florie Rotondo, age 8.” Florie, honey, I know just what you mean — even if you don’t: how could you, age eight?
It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country [Australia], I barely knew it. I'd spent so many years studying the art of our immigrant cultures, and barely any time at all on the one that had been here all along.... So I set myself a crash course and became a pioneer in a new field: desperation conservation. My job became the documentation and preservation of ancient Aboriginal rock art, before the ura…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 52 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).