Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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U | Yes | No | No | No |
uranium 238 | Yes | No | No | No |
U (noun) | uranium 238 (noun) |
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the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet | the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239 |
a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons | |
a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine |