Date of Award
6-1964
Document Type
Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Department
Chemistry
Language
English
Abstract
Uranium became known in the same epoch of history that saw the discovery of the planet Uranus. It was so named. Uranium is a rather active element and never occurs free in nature. Its ores include uraninite is by far the most important. This ore is sometimes called pitchblende and has a simplest empirical formula of UO2. Due to the fact that it is always found partially oxidized its composition may range between that of UO2 and U3O8. This latter form contains both tetra and hexavalent uranium. An illustrative structure is given below. It is sometimes regarded as uranyl uranate, which takes the formula (UO2)2UO4. Perhaps the best proposed formula is UO2
Recommended Citation
Hardman, Bruce Bertolette, "On the recovery of the nitrates of uranyl ion and silver (I) ion from laboratory residua" (1964). Honors Theses. 1929.
https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/1929
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