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Uranium: Nuclear Friend Or Nuclear Foe
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On Monday August 6, 1945 the U.S. Bomber Enola Gay flew over the
Japanese city of Hiroshima. Seconds later a metallic projectile fell
towards its target. In a blinding flash the world felt the power of a new
age, the nuclear age.
The study of radiation that would eventually lead to these uranium
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.... 3818°C, and has a specific gravity of 19.05 at
25°C. Uranium has three crystalline forms, of which the one that forms at
about 770°C is malleable and ductile. Uranium is soluble in hydrochloric
acids and nitric acids, but not in alkalies.
Uranium never occurs naturally in the free state but is found as an
oxide or complex salt in minerals such as pitchblende and carnotite. It has
an average concentration in the earths crust of about 2 parts per million,
and ranks 48th among the natural occurri.... |
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