 Discovery Information |
| Who:
Martin Klaproth
|
| When: 1789 |
| Where: Germany |
|
| Name Origin |
| From planet Uranus. |
|
| Sources |
| Occurs in many rocks, but in large amounts only in such minerals as pitchblende and carnotite. |
|
| Uses |
| For many centuries it was used as a pigment for glass. Now it is used as a fuel in nuclear reactors and in nuclear bombs. Depleted Uranium is used in casings of armor piercing arterial shells, armor plating on tanks and as ballast in the wings of some large aircraft. |
|
| Notes |
| Potential occupational carcinogen (lung cancer). All
isotopes
and
compounds
of uranium are toxic,
teratogenic
and radioactive. |
