Wiktionary
a. (context chemistry English) lying beyond uranium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 92
WordNet
adj. having an atomic number greater than 92
Usage examples of "transuranic".
CO2 and spat out oxygen: probe analysis marked significant transuranic ore deposits and countless interesting life forms on the part surveyed, none of which seemed to be intelligent.
It contains a nuclear bomb in the base, using a fissionable transuranic of small critical mass.
In all this vast wreckage, however, he found no sign of transuranic elements or any kind of manufactured matter.
I can tell you that Tompkins and Clagone nearly blasted Terra off of the map because they inadvertently stacked a couple of transuranic elements side by side.
Its physical effects are outrageous compared with even the transuranic elements which carry the Solar Phoenix to the extremes far above uranium.
They were specifically hoping for transuranics like plutonium which paid the biggest bonuses.
They had loaded the choicest of the ores, the rare gemstones which had paid the planet's assessment in the FSP Development Office, the richest of the transuranics.
Originally designated a second generation sun, with elements up to the transuranic, Arrutan patently did not conform to that classification.
Originally Ireta had been earmarked as a feeding ground with its rich transuranics so satisfying to Thek appetites, hence the cores.
This was Touch-Down Time, when the citizens of the bustling, prosperous planet of Fomalhaut V - rich in the transuranics, the actinides, so vital as the energy fuels needed to extend the surge of colonization to every habitable planet in the spiral of the Milky Way - relaxed industry and inhibitions in a three-day spectacular of day-long contests, night-long dancing, and eating and carousing.
And Ireta, a satellite of a suspected third generation sun, ought to be rich in the heavier elements, rich in the transuranics and actinides, neptunium, plutonium and the more esoteric of the rare elements above uranium on the periodic table, so urgently and constantly required by the Federation of Sentient Populations, the search for which was one of the primary tasks of the EEC.
You can be certain that Bakkun included precise details of the rich transuranic potential of Ireta when that homing capsule was launched.
He had also appropriated some of the pulp sheets Lunzie had extruded for Kai, insisting that his work would be far more important in the eyes of the FSP than any merely prodigious amount of transuranic elements.
Any natural source of transuranics would have decayed by natural processes since the formation of the planet.