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Uranium, ₉₂U

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Uranium
Pronunciation	/jʊˈreɪniəm/ ​(yuu-RAY-nee-əm)
Appearance	silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air
Standard atomic weight Ar°(U)
	238.02891±0.00003 238.03±0.01 (abridged)
Uranium in the periodic table
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Atomic number (Z)	92
Group	f-block groups (no number)
Period	period 7
Block	f-block
Electron configuration	[Rn] 5f3 6d1 7s2
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 32, 21, 9, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	1405.3 K ​(1132.2 °C, ​2070 °F)
Boiling point	4404 K ​(4131 °C, ​7468 °F)
Density (at 20° C)	19.050 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	17.3 g/cm3
Heat of fusion	9.14 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization	417.1 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	27.665 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T (K) 2325 2564 2859 3234 3727 4402
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	common: +6 −1, +1,? +2,? +3, +4, +5
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 1.38
Ionization energies	1st: 597.6 kJ/mol 2nd: 1420 kJ/mol
Atomic radius	empirical: 156 pm
Covalent radius	196±7 pm
Van der Waals radius	186 pm
Color lines in a spectral range Spectral lines of uranium
Other properties
Natural occurrence	primordial
Crystal structure	​orthorhombic (oS4)
Lattice constants	Orthorhombic crystal structure for uranium a = 285.35 pm b = 586.97 pm c = 495.52 pm (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion	15.46×10−6/K (at 20 °C)
Thermal conductivity	27.5 W/(m⋅K)
Electrical resistivity	0.280 µΩ⋅m (at 0 °C)
Magnetic ordering	paramagnetic
Young's modulus	208 GPa
Shear modulus	111 GPa
Bulk modulus	100 GPa
Speed of sound thin rod	3155 m/s (at 20 °C)
Poisson ratio	0.23
Vickers hardness	1960–2500 MPa
Brinell hardness	2350–3850 MPa
CAS Number	7440-61-1
History
Naming	after planet Uranus, itself named after Greek god of the sky Uranus
Discovery	Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1789)
First isolation	Eugène-Melchior Péligot (1841)
Isotopes of uranium
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 232U synth 68.9 y α 228Th SF – 233U trace 1.592×105 y α 229Th SF – 234U 0.005% 2.455×105 y α 230Th SF – 235U 0.720% 7.038×108 y α 231Th SF – 236U trace 2.342×107 y α 232Th SF – 238U 99.3% 4.468×109 y α 234Th SF – β−β− 238Pu

U · Uranium
Pa ← ibox Pa	iso 92 U  [] IB-U [] IBisos []	→ Np ibox Np
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child table, as reused in {IB-U}
Main isotopes of uranium
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 232U synth 68.9 y α 228Th SF – 233U trace 1.592×105 y α 229Th SF – 234U 0.005% 2.455×105 y α 230Th SF – 235U 0.720% 7.038×108 y α 231Th SF – 236U trace 2.342×107 y α 232Th SF – 238U 99.3% 4.468×109 y α 234Th SF – β−β− 238Pu

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Phase at STP
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Electron configuration (cmt, ref)
Isotopes
Standard atomic weight
most stable isotope
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