Uranium

Element number 92 on the periodic table. Has an average atomic mass of 238.0 amu, 92 protons in its nucleus and 92 electrons orbiting around it. It has an electron ground state configuration of 1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 4s² 3d¹⁰ 4p⁶ 5s² 4d¹⁰ 5p⁶ 6s² 4f¹⁴ 5d¹⁰ 6p⁶ 7s² 5f³ 6d¹. It is the fourth element in the actinide series.

[Editor's note (Gz): Made factual correction 3/3/2002]

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A late-night television show on Much Music USA. It showcases popular and upcoming heavy metal (hence the name) and death metal bands. Besides playing videos the show boasts a sexy goth chick host named Julia, who interviews famous rockers with her hand-held camcorder.

The show usually features standard heavy metal fare such as Disturbed,Cradle of Filth, Lamb of God, Mudvayne, and any other head-banging satanists that happen to be poplular at the time.

Over the last two years or so that the show has been on Julia has interviewed: Glenn Danzig, Soulfly, Metallica, System of a Down, Anthrax, and Black Label Society.

This season a spin-off show called Uranium Classics has come out, which is dedicated to playing nothing but the good old-school metal like Ozzy, Slayer, and Judas Priest.

U*ra"ni*um (?), n. [NL., from Uranus the planet. See Uranus.] Chem.

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. �x3c;--radioactive, U-235 isotope is used in atomic fission, in bombs or power plants --�x3e;

⇒ Uranium was discovered in the state of an oxide by Klaproth in 1789, and so named in honor of Herschel's discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781.

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