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Uranium oxide
Uranium oxide is an oxide of the element uranium.
The metal uranium forms several oxides:
- Uranium dioxide or uranium(IV) oxide (UO, the mineral uraninite or pitchblende)
- Diuranium pentoxide or uranium(V) oxide (UO)
- Uranium trioxide or uranium(VI) oxide (UO)
- Triuranium octoxide (UO), the most stable uranium oxide; yellowcake typically contains 70 to 90 percent triuranium octoxide)
- Uranyl peroxide (UOO or UO)
Uranium dioxide is oxidized in contact with oxygen to form triuranium octoxide.
3 UO + O → UO; at 700 °C (970 K)Usage examples of "uranium oxide".
Anyhow, they use a mixture of radium and beryllium as a neutron source, and bombard uranium oxide with the neutrons.
Brilliant blues, reds, and yellows made from cobalt and cinnabar and uranium oxide.
He had with him a sack of gold ore and one thumb-sized crystal of uranium oxide.
The German submarine U-234 is in the North Atlantic, headed for the Cape of Good Hope, carrying ten containers holding twelve hundred pounds of uranium oxide.