Uranium
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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
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.... will melt at 1132 degrees Celsius, and boils at about 3818
degrees Celsius. Its atomic weight is 238.029 and its atomic number is 92.
Chapter 4
Uses
Uranium several uses, it is used in nuclear weapons 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 proper ....
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