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Uranium - Research Papers

Uranium

Chapter 1
Locations
Large deposits of in the U.S are found in New Mexico,
Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Most of Canada's Uranium comes from the
province of Saskatchewan. There is a lot of Uranium in the oceans but we do
not have the technology to mine it at a cheap cost.

Chapter 2

Mining

When uranium is extracted, pitchblende is broken up and mixed with
sulfuric and nitric acids. It then dissolves into uranyl sulfate. With the
addition of sodium hydroxide, uranium is precipitated as sodium diuranate
which is known as the yellow oxide of uranium. To get uranium from
carnotite, the ore must be finely ground and treated with a hot solution of
caustic and potash to dissolve out the ...

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and in nuclear
power plants. They used uranium in 1954 for the first nuclear powered
submarine in the U.S.

Chapter 5

History

Uranium was discovered in 1789 in pitchblende by a German chemist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth who named it after the planet Uranus. The
radioactive properties of uranium were first showed in 1896 when a French
physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel produced an image on a photographic plate
covered with a light-absorbing ...

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