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What is uranium and its types?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Uranium is a natural chemical element, metal, solid, toxic, radioactive.

Natural uranium has three isotopes: 235U, 234U, 238U and also many artificial isotopes.

Uranium can be natural, depleted or enriched; natural or irradiated; as metal or in alloys or compounds.

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