C They are undergoing convergent evolution. The phylogenetic group of crustaceans includes nearly , species, including relatively big creatures such as prawns, lobsters and crabs, but also smaller specimens such as sea fleas and bay barnacles. Dry weight concentrations of uranium in plants range from 5 to 60 parts per billion and ash from burnt wood can have concentrations up to 4 parts per million. Queen switches on nuclear power". Sampling a single individual per species also consistently decreased accuracy. D certain metabolic reactions are carried out by ribozymes, and affected individuals lack key splicing factors.
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The study of this Mount St. Uranium is the most stable isotope of uranium, with a half-life of about 4. The volcanic ash found in the various layers is itself is quite interesting. B a mechanism for how evolution occurs. The amount of uranium in air is usually very small; however, people who work in factories that process phosphate fertilizers , live near government facilities that made or tested nuclear weapons, or live or work near a coal -fired power plant, facilities that mine or process uranium ore, or enrich uranium for reactor fuel, may have increased exposure to uranium. Which of the following kinds of genes would you expect to be mutated? Thus crystals, as they form, may have tiny imperfections that accept parent and daughter products in the same ratios as they occur in the lava, so one can inherit ages from the lava into minerals in this way.
Along with thorium and plutonium , it is one of the three fissile elements, meaning it can easily break apart to become lighter elements. This property of uranium and to a lesser degree uranium generates the heat needed to run nuclear reactors and provides the explosive material for nuclear weapons.
Both uses rely on the ability of uranium to produce a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Depleted uranium uranium is used in kinetic energy penetrators and armor plating. In addition to its uses in nuclear technology, uranium has been used as a colorant in uranium glass, producing orange-red through lemon yellow hues.
It was also used for tinting in early photography. Uranium is a naturally occurring element that can be found in low levels within all rock, soil, and water.
Uranium is also the highest-numbered element to be found naturally in significant quantities on earth and is always found combined with other elements. Its average concentration in the Earth 's crust is depending on the reference 2 to 4 parts per million,   or about 40 times as abundant as silver.
It is more plentiful than antimony , tin , cadmium , mercury , or silver and is about as abundant as arsenic or molybdenum. It has been shown in some recent work at Manchester that bacteria can reduce and fix uranium in soils.
Some micro-organisms, such as the lichen Trapelia involuta or the bacterium Citrobacter, can absorb concentrations of uranium that are up to times higher than their environment. After one day, one gram of bacteria will encrust themselves with nine grams of uranyl phosphate crystals; creating the possibility that these organisms could be used to decontaminate uranium-polluted water.
Plants absorb some uranium from the soil they are rooted in. Dry weight concentrations of uranium in plants range from 5 to 60 parts per billion and ash from burnt wood can have concentrations up to 4 parts per million. Uranium ore is mined in several ways: The leachate is then subjected to one of several sequences of precipitation, solvent extraction, and ion exchange.
The resulting mixture, called yellowcake, contains at least 75 percent uranium oxides. Yellowcake is then generally further refined using nitric acid to create a solution of uranyl nitrate. Additional solvent extraction procedures finish the process. Commercial-grade uranium can be produced through the reduction of uranium halides with alkali or alkaline earth metals.
In seventeen countries produced concentrated uranium oxides; with Canada Australia has the world's largest uranium ore reserves—40 percent of the planet's known supply. In fact, the world's largest single uranium deposit is located at the Olympic Dam Mine in South Australia. As of , the Australian government was advocating an expansion of uranium mining, although issues with state governments and indigenous interests complicate the issue. United States Federal government paid discovery bonuses and guaranteed purchase prices to anyone who found and delivered Uranium ore.
The United States Government was the sole legal purchaser of the uranium. The economic incentives resulted in a frenzy of exploration and mining activity throughout the Colorado plateau from through that left thousands of miles of crudely graded roads spiderwebbing the remote deserts of the Colorado Plateau, and thousands of abandoned uranium mines, exploratory shafts, and tailings piles.
The frenzy ended as suddenly as it had begun, when the U. The use of uranium, in its natural oxide form, dates back to at least 79 C. Gunther of the University of Oxford in The discovery of the element is credited to the German pharmacist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus. While working in his experimental laboratory in Berlin in , Klaproth was able to precipitate a yellow compound likely sodium diuranate by dissolving pitchblende in nitric acid and neutralizing the solution with sodium hydroxide.
In , Eugene-Melchior Peligot, who was Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures in Paris , isolated the first sample of uranium metal by heating uranium tetrachloride with potassium. One such use for the oxide was the coloring of pottery and glass. Antoine Becquerel discovered radioactivity by using uranium in A team led by Enrico Fermi in observed that bombarding uranium with neutrons produces the emission of beta rays electrons or positrons; see beta particle.
Lise Meitner and her nephew, physicist Otto Robert Frisch, published the physical explanation in February and named the process 'nuclear fission'. On December 2, , another team led by Enrico Fermi was able to initiate the first artificial nuclear chain reaction.
The uranium-based Little Boy device became the first nuclear weapon used in war when it was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, Initially, only four watt light bulbs were lit by the reactor but improvements eventually enabled it to power the whole facility later, the whole town of Arco became the first in the world to have all its electricity come from nuclear power.
Nuclear power was used for the first time for propulsion by a submarine , the USS Nautilus , in Fifteen ancient and no longer active natural fission reactors were found in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon , West Africa in The ore they exist in is 1.
The ability of the surrounding sediment to contain the nuclear waste products in less than ideal conditions has been cited by the U. During the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, huge stockpiles of uranium were amassed and tens of thousands of nuclear weapons were created, using enriched uranium and plutonium made from uranium.
Nuclear fallout and pollution have occurred from above-ground nuclear tests  and several nuclear accidents: Uranium is an inner transition metal of the actinide series, situated in period 7 of the periodic table , between protactinium and neptunium. When refined, it is a silvery white, weakly radioactive metal , which is slightly softer than steel ,  strongly electropositive and a poor electrical conductor.
Uranium metal reacts with nearly all nonmetallic elements and their compounds with reactivity increasing with temperature. Uranium was the first element that was found to be fissile. Upon bombardment with slow neutrons , its uranium isotope becomes a very short lived uranium isomer which immediately divides into two smaller nuclei, releasing nuclear binding energy and more neutrons. If these neutrons are absorbed by other uranium nuclei, a nuclear chain reaction occurs and, if there is nothing to absorb some neutrons and slow the reaction, the reaction is explosive.
Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes , uranium All three isotopes are radioactive , creating radioisotopes , with the most abundant and stable being uranium with a half-life of 4. Uranium is made from thorium by neutron bombardment. The isotope uranium or enriched uranium is important for both nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons because it is the only isotope existing in nature to any appreciable extent that is fissile, that is, can be broken apart by thermal neutrons.
Enrichment of uranium ore through isotope separation to concentrate the fissionable uranium is needed for use in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. A majority of neutrons released by a fissioning atom of uranium must impact other uranium atoms to sustain the nuclear chain reaction needed for these applications. The concentration and amount of uranium needed to achieve this is called a 'critical mass.
To be considered 'enriched' the uranium fraction has to be increased to significantly greater than its concentration in naturally-occurring uranium. Enriched uranium typically has a uranium concentration of between 3 and 5 percent. To be considered 'depleted', the uranium isotope concentration has to have been decreased to significantly less than its natural concentration.
The gas centrifuge process, where gaseous uranium hexafluoride UF 6 is separated by weight using high-speed centrifuges , has become the cheapest and leading enrichment process lighter UF 6 concentrates in the center of the centrifuge. It was also used for tinting and shading in early photography. The discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth , who named the new element after the recently-discovered planet Uranus.
Robert Oppenheimer starting in led to its use as a fuel in the nuclear power industry and in Little Boy , the first nuclear weapon used in war. An ensuing arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union produced tens of thousands of nuclear weapons that used uranium metal and uranium-derived plutonium The security of those weapons and their fissile material following the breakup of the Soviet Union in is an ongoing concern for public health and safety. When refined , uranium is a silvery white, weakly radioactive metal.
It has a Mohs hardness of 6, sufficient to scratch glass and approximately equal to that of titanium , rhodium , manganese and niobium. It is malleable , ductile , slightly paramagnetic , strongly electropositive and a poor electrical conductor.
Uranium metal reacts with almost all non-metal elements with the exception of the noble gases and their compounds , with reactivity increasing with temperature.
Uranium was the first isotope that was found to be fissile. Other naturally occurring isotopes are fissionable, but not fissile. On bombardment with slow neutrons, its uranium isotope will most of the time divide into two smaller nuclei , releasing nuclear binding energy and more neutrons.
If too many of these neutrons are absorbed by other uranium nuclei, a nuclear chain reaction occurs that results in a burst of heat or in special circumstances an explosion. In a nuclear reactor, such a chain reaction is slowed and controlled by a neutron poison , absorbing some of the free neutrons. Such neutron absorbent materials are often part of reactor control rods see nuclear reactor physics for a description of this process of reactor control.
Uranium metal has three allotropic forms: The major application of uranium in the military sector is in high-density penetrators. Tank armor and other removable vehicle armor can also be hardened with depleted uranium plates. The use of depleted uranium became politically and environmentally contentious after the use of such munitions by the US, UK and other countries during wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans raised questions concerning uranium compounds left in the soil see Gulf War Syndrome.
Depleted uranium is also used as a shielding material in some containers used to store and transport radioactive materials. While the metal itself is radioactive, its high density makes it more effective than lead in halting radiation from strong sources such as radium.
During the later stages of World War II , the entire Cold War , and to a lesser extent afterwards, uranium has been used as the fissile explosive material to produce nuclear weapons. Initially, two major types of fission bombs were built: Such bombs are jacketed in a non-fissile unenriched uranium case, and they derive more than half their power from the fission of this material by fast neutrons from the nuclear fusion process.
The main use of uranium in the civilian sector is to fuel nuclear power plants. Fuel used for United States Navy reactors is typically highly enriched in uranium the exact values are classified. In a breeder reactor , uranium can also be converted into plutonium through the following reaction: Before and, occasionally, after the discovery of radioactivity, uranium was primarily used in small amounts for yellow glass and pottery glazes, such as uranium glass and in Fiestaware.
The discovery and isolation of radium in uranium ore pitchblende by Marie Curie sparked the development of uranium mining to extract the radium, which was used to make glow-in-the-dark paints for clock and aircraft dials.
This waste product was diverted to the glazing industry, making uranium glazes very inexpensive and abundant. Besides the pottery glazes, uranium tile glazes accounted for the bulk of the use, including common bathroom and kitchen tiles which can be produced in green, yellow, mauve , black, blue, red and other colors.
Uranium was also used in photographic chemicals especially uranium nitrate as a toner ,  in lamp filaments for stage lighting bulbs,  to improve the appearance of dentures ,  and in the leather and wood industries for stains and dyes.
Uranium salts are mordants of silk or wool. Uranyl acetate and uranyl formate are used as electron-dense "stains" in transmission electron microscopy , to increase the contrast of biological specimens in ultrathin sections and in negative staining of viruses , isolated cell organelles and macromolecules.
The discovery of the radioactivity of uranium ushered in additional scientific and practical uses of the element. The long half-life of the isotope uranium 4. Uranium metal is used for X-ray targets in the making of high-energy X-rays. The use of uranium in its natural oxide form dates back to at least the year 79 CE , when it was used to add a yellow color to ceramic glazes. Gunther of the University of Oxford in The discovery of the element is credited to the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth.
While he was working in his experimental laboratory in Berlin in , Klaproth was able to precipitate a yellow compound likely sodium diuranate by dissolving pitchblende in nitric acid and neutralizing the solution with sodium hydroxide. Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity by using uranium in A team led by Enrico Fermi in observed that bombarding uranium with neutrons produces the emission of beta rays electrons or positrons from the elements produced; see beta particle.
Lise Meitner and her nephew, the physicist Otto Robert Frisch , published the physical explanation in February and named the process " nuclear fission ".
Confirmation of this hypothesis came in , and later work found that on average about 2. Nier to separate uranium isotopes for determination of the fissile component, and on February 29, , Nier used an instrument he built at the University of Minnesota to separate the world's first uranium sample in the Tate Laboratory. After mailed to Columbia University 's cyclotron , John Dunning confirmed the sample to be the isolated fissile material on March 1.
These discoveries led numerous countries to begin working on the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. On 2 December , as part of the Manhattan Project , another team led by Enrico Fermi was able to initiate the first artificial self-sustained nuclear chain reaction , Chicago Pile An initial plan using enriched uranium was abandoned as it was as yet unavailable in sufficient quantities.
The uranium-based Little Boy device became the first nuclear weapon used in war when it was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August Other early nuclear power plants were Calder Hall in England , which began generation on 17 October ,  and the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania , which began on 26 May Nuclear power was used for the first time for propulsion by a submarine , the USS Nautilus , in In , the French physicist Francis Perrin discovered fifteen ancient and no longer active natural nuclear fission reactors in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon , West Africa , collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors.
The ore deposit is 1. The capacity of the surrounding sediment to contain the nuclear waste products has been cited by the U. Above-ground nuclear tests by the Soviet Union and the United States in the s and early s and by France into the s and s  spread a significant amount of fallout from uranium daughter isotopes around the world.
Uranium miners have a higher incidence of cancer. An excess risk of lung cancer among Navajo uranium miners, for example, has been documented and linked to their occupation.
During the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, huge stockpiles of uranium were amassed and tens of thousands of nuclear weapons were created using enriched uranium and plutonium made from uranium. Scientific American reported in February that in some of the facilities security consisted of chain link fences which were in severe states of disrepair. According to an interview from the article, one facility had been storing samples of enriched weapons grade uranium in a broom closet before the improvement project; another had been keeping track of its stock of nuclear warheads using index cards kept in a shoe box.
Along with all elements having atomic weights higher than that of iron , it is only naturally formed in supernovae. Uranium is a naturally occurring element that can be found in low levels within all rock, soil, and water.
Uranium is the 51st element in order of abundance in the Earth's crust. Uranium is also the highest-numbered element to be found naturally in significant quantities on Earth and is almost always found combined with other elements.
Uranium's average concentration in the Earth 's crust is depending on the reference 2 to 4 parts per million,   or about 40 times as abundant as silver. Uranium is more plentiful than antimony , tin , cadmium , mercury , or silver, and it is about as abundant as arsenic or molybdenum. Some bacteria, such as Shewanella putrefaciens , Geobacter metallireducens and some strains of Burkholderia fungorum , use uranium for their growth and convert U VI to U IV.
Some organisms, such as the lichen Trapelia involuta or microorganisms such as the bacterium Citrobacter , can absorb concentrations of uranium that are up to times the level of their environment. After one day, one gram of bacteria can encrust themselves with nine grams of uranyl phosphate crystals; this creates the possibility that these organisms could be used in bioremediation to decontaminate uranium-polluted water.
In nature, uranium VI forms highly soluble carbonate complexes at alkaline pH. This leads to an increase in mobility and availability of uranium to groundwater and soil from nuclear wastes which leads to health hazards. However, it is difficult to precipitate uranium as phosphate in the presence of excess carbonate at alkaline pH. The precipitation ability was enhanced by overexpressing PhoK protein in E. Plants absorb some uranium from soil.
Dry weight concentrations of uranium in plants range from 5 to 60 parts per billion, and ash from burnt wood can have concentrations up to 4 parts per million.
Other important uranium mining countries are Canada 9, t , Australia 6, t , Niger 4, t , Namibia 4, t and Russia 3, t. Uranium ore is mined in several ways: Extensive measures must be employed to extract the metal from its ore. The leachate is subjected to one of several sequences of precipitation, solvent extraction, and ion exchange.
Yellowcake is then calcined to remove impurities from the milling process before refining and conversion. Commercial-grade uranium can be produced through the reduction of uranium halides with alkali or alkaline earth metals. It is estimated that 5. Some nuclear fuel comes from nuclear weapons being dismantled,  such as from the Megatons to Megawatts Program.
In , ORNL researchers announced the successful development of a new absorbent material dubbed HiCap which performs surface retention of solid or gas molecules, atoms or ions and also effectively removes toxic metals from water, according to results verified by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In , seventeen countries produced concentrated uranium oxides: The ultimate available supply is believed to be sufficient for at least the next 85 years,  although some studies indicate underinvestment in the late twentieth century may produce supply problems in the 21st century.
There is a fold increase in the amount of uranium recoverable for each tenfold decrease in ore grade. Calcined uranium yellowcake, as produced in many large mills, contains a distribution of uranium oxidation species in various forms ranging from most oxidized to least oxidized.
Particles with short residence times in a calciner will generally be less oxidized than those with long retention times or particles recovered in the stack scrubber. Uranium content is usually referenced to U 3 O 8 , which dates to the days of the Manhattan Project when U 3 O 8 was used as an analytical chemistry reporting standard.
Phase relationships in the uranium-oxygen system are complex. The most important oxidation states of uranium are uranium IV and uranium VI , and their two corresponding oxides are, respectively, uranium dioxide UO 2 and uranium trioxide UO 3. The most common forms of uranium oxide are triuranium octoxide U 3 O 8 and UO 2.
Triuranium octoxide is depending on conditions the most stable compound of uranium and is the form most commonly found in nature. Uranium dioxide is the form in which uranium is most commonly used as a nuclear reactor fuel. Because of their stability, uranium oxides are generally considered the preferred chemical form for storage or disposal.
Salts of many oxidation states of uranium are water- soluble and may be studied in aqueous solutions. Unlike the uranyl salts of uranium and polyatomic ion uranium-oxide cationic forms, the uranates , salts containing a polyatomic uranium-oxide anion, are generally not water-soluble. The interactions of carbonate anions with uranium VI cause the Pourbaix diagram to change greatly when the medium is changed from water to a carbonate containing solution.
While the vast majority of carbonates are insoluble in water students are often taught that all carbonates other than those of alkali metals are insoluble in water , uranium carbonates are often soluble in water. This is because a U VI cation is able to bind two terminal oxides and three or more carbonates to form anionic complexes.
The uranium fraction diagrams in the presence of carbonate illustrate this further: When carbonate is added, uranium is converted to a series of carbonate complexes if the pH is increased. One effect of these reactions is increased solubility of uranium in the pH range 6 to 8, a fact that has a direct bearing on the long term stability of spent uranium dioxide nuclear fuels. Even higher temperatures will reversibly remove the hydrogen.
This property makes uranium hydrides convenient starting materials to create reactive uranium powder along with various uranium carbide , nitride , and halide compounds. Uranium carbides and uranium nitrides are both relatively inert semimetallic compounds that are minimally soluble in acids , react with water, and can ignite in air to form U 3 O 8.
Both UC and UC 2 are formed by adding carbon to molten uranium or by exposing the metal to carbon monoxide at high temperatures. All uranium fluorides are created using uranium tetrafluoride UF 4 ; UF 4 itself is prepared by hydrofluorination of uranium dioxide. Under the right conditions of temperature and pressure, the reaction of solid UF 4 with gaseous uranium hexafluoride UF 6 can form the intermediate fluorides of U 2 F 9 , U 4 F 17 , and UF 5. At room temperatures, UF 6 has a high vapor pressure , making it useful in the gaseous diffusion process to separate the rare uranium from the common uranium isotope.
This compound can be prepared from uranium dioxide and uranium hydride by the following process: The resulting UF 6 , a white solid, is highly reactive by fluorination , easily sublimes emitting a vapor that behaves as a nearly ideal gas , and is the most volatile compound of uranium known to exist.
One method of preparing uranium tetrachloride UCl 4 is to directly combine chlorine with either uranium metal or uranium hydride. The reduction of UCl 4 by hydrogen produces uranium trichloride UCl 3 while the higher chlorides of uranium are prepared by reaction with additional chlorine.
Bromides and iodides of uranium are formed by direct reaction of, respectively, bromine and iodine with uranium or by adding UH 3 to those element's acids. Stability of the oxyhalides decrease as the atomic weight of the component halide increases. Natural uranium consists of three major isotopes: All three are radioactive , emitting alpha particles , with the exception that all three of these isotopes have small probabilities of undergoing spontaneous fission , rather than alpha emission.
There are also five other trace isotopes: It is also expected that thorium should be able to undergo double beta decay , which would produce uranium, but this has not yet been observed experimentally. Uranium is the most stable isotope of uranium, with a half-life of about 4. Uranium has a half-life of about 7. When the Earth was young, probably about one-fifth of its uranium was uranium, but the percentage of U was probably much lower than this.
The decay series of U , which is called the actinium series , has 15 members and eventually decays into lead Uranium, which is a member of the uranium series the decay chain of uranium , decays to lead through a series of relatively short-lived isotopes.
Uranium is made from thorium by neutron bombardment, usually in a nuclear reactor, and U is also fissile.
Uranium is important for both nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons , because it is the only uranium isotope existing in nature on Earth in any significant amount that is fissile. This means that it can be split into two or three fragments fission products by thermal neutrons.
Uranium is not fissile, but is a fertile isotope, because after neutron activation it can produce plutonium , another fissile isotope. Indeed, the U nucleus can absorb one neutron to produce the radioactive isotope uranium Isotope separation concentrates enriches the fissionable uranium for nuclear weapons and most nuclear power plants, except for gas cooled reactors and pressurised heavy water reactors.
Most neutrons released by a fissioning atom of uranium must impact other uranium atoms to sustain the nuclear chain reaction. The concentration and amount of uranium needed to achieve this is called a ' critical mass '. To be considered 'depleted', the uranium isotope concentration should be no more than 0.
The gas centrifuge process, where gaseous uranium hexafluoride UF 6 is separated by the difference in molecular weight between UF 6 and UF 6 using high-speed centrifuges , is the cheapest and leading enrichment process. In this process, uranium hexafluoride is repeatedly diffused through a silver - zinc membrane, and the different isotopes of uranium are separated by diffusion rate since uranium is heavier it diffuses slightly slower than uranium This leaves uranium bonded to fluorine and allows uranium metal to precipitate from the solution.
A person can be exposed to uranium or its radioactive daughters, such as radon by inhaling dust in air or by ingesting contaminated water and food.
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The chemicals that make up the ash are uniform throughout all the layers. This interpretation is supported by the presence of abundant diatoms.
This is especially true as the lava is cooling. E Species X, Y, and Z share a common ancestor, but nothing more can be claimed than this. This is approximately 2, times as much Ar as is found in natural muscovite. Dinosaur eggs have often been found with such typpe double shell, suggesting that they were able to link and zelda hook up laying suitedd eggs for some time in the hopes of more favorable conditions. Another factor in this direction is that older glauconies have more time to absorb argon
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