单词 | actino-uranium |
释义 | actino-uraniumn. Chemistry and Physics. Now historical. The (fissile) isotope of uranium of mass number 235.A higher mass number was at first inferred for this isotope. ΚΠ 1918 Science 3 May 442/1 A long-lived element of atomic weight ‘about 240’ which is the parent of the actinium series of elements... This ‘actino-uranium’ is supposed to undergo an alpha ray change to form uranium Y. 1929 E. Rutherford in Nature 2 Mar. 313/2 We shall first discuss the probable mass of this new isotope, which for convenience will be called actino-uranium. It seems simplest to suppose that its mass is 235. 1958 H. J. Gray Dict. Physics 14/1 Actino-uranium..is explosive when in sufficiently high concentration, owing to nuclear fission. 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance viii. 77 An isotope discovered only four years earlier, called U-235 or actino-uranium. 2001 L. E. Nyquist et al. in J. A. M. Bleeker et al. Cent. Space Sci. lv. 1327/2 Rutherford..inferred its ultimate source as an isotope of uranium, of mass 235, which he called actino-uranium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1918 |
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