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Chemical properties: All of its isotopes are radioactive. It has a wide range of oxidation states. It is flammable and pyrophoric when finely divided.

Physical properties: It is silvery black in color. It is the only element having naturally occurring isotopes than can support a nuclear fission chain reaction.

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Would you expect neodymium and uranium to have similar properties?

Uranium and neodymium are very different chemical elements.


What are some of uraniums chemical properties?

Uranium is a reactive metal having a Pauling electronegativity of 1,38; uranium react with the majority of other chemical elements. Also uranium can form many alloys.


What are Uranium's physical and chemical properties?

Some characteristics of uranium are:- uranium is a natural metal- uranium is radioactive with 3 natural isotopes- the atomic weight of uranium is 238,02891(3)- the atomic number is 92- the density of uranium is 19,1 g/cm3- the melting point of uranium is 1 132,2 0C- the boiling point of uranium i1 4 131 0C- the crystalline structure of uranium is orthorombic- uranium is paramagnetic- the thermal conductivity is 142 W/m.K- the electrical resistivity is 47,7 nanoohm.meteretc.


Chemical properties of uranium?

- uranium has 3 natural isotopes and 26 artificial isotopes or isomers- all isotopes are radioactive- natural isotopes are principally alpha emitters- isotopes 233, 235 are fissile with thermal neutrons- isotope 238 is fertile- the peak energy of gamma rays from U-235 is at 185,712 keV


What properties does uranium possess that classify it as a metal?

Uranium occurs in minerals including pitchblende, carnotite, cleveite, autunite, uraninite, uranophane, and tobernite. It is also found in phosphate rock, lignite, and monazite sands. Radium is always associated with uranium ores. Uranium can be prepared by reducing uranium halides with alkali or alkaline earth metals or by reducing uranium oxides by calcium, carbon, or aluminum at elevated temperatures. The metal can be produced through electrolysis of KUF5 or UF4, dissolved in a molten mixture of CaCl2 and NaCl. High-purity uranium can be prepared by the thermal decomposition of uranium halides on a hot filament. Or look on the perodic table hope it works :D

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What is the same between uranium 235 and uranium 238?

The both have 92 protons in their nucleus and the same chemical properties. Their NUCLEAR properties are different.


Is uranium a physical or chemical property?

What is the question exactly? If it is about Uranium having physical and/or chemical properties, the answer is that it has both. Every single element and compound in this universe has both physical and chemical properties.


Would you expect neodymium and uranium to similar properties?

Uranium and neodymium are very different chemical elements.


Would you expect neodymium and uranium to have similar properties?

Uranium and neodymium are very different chemical elements.


Is uranium a physical or chemical?

What is the question exactly? If it is about Uranium having physical and/or chemical properties, the answer is that it has both. Every single element and compound in this universe has both physical and chemical properties.


What is uranium's chemical and physical properties?

See the link below


Why are uranium and plutonium grouped together?

Actinides have similar properties.


What are two elements that have properties similar to uranium?

thorium and plutonium


Has Uranium changed over time?

The chemical and physical properties of uranium remain unchanged. But because uranium is a radioactive element the quantity of uranium on the earth is permanently changed due to radioactive decay.


What is the name of the man who discover that the uranium was giving off radioactivity?

Uranium's radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Antoine Becquerel.


What are environmental properties for uranium?

1. Uranium is a possible polluting agent of the natural environment (soils, waters, vegetation). 2. Uranium is a toxic and radioactive chemical element. 3. Uranium release radium and radon.


What was used before uranium?

Before uranium discovery and before the 150 years long study of its properties the nuclear energy was nonexistent.