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The article states, in all its content, the radioactivity of the element and the use of it. But beside its radioactivity I suppose that it has also physical, chemical properties. Is it that way that with whichever other element it "associates" the radioactivity will not disappear?

145.129.136.48 (talk) 21:35, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, all uranium compounds are radioactive because they contain radioactive uranium atoms. Double sharp (talk) 04:54, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Along with all elements having atomic weights higher than that of iron, uranium is only naturally formed in supernovae." The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), NASA, et al., have claimed now for decades that elements heavier than iron did not form via supernovae. The NAS with NASA published Eleven Science Questions for the New Century with questions #10, "How were the heavy elements from iron to uranium made?". Why did they ask this (contrary to the certainty of our WP article)? First, there are insufficient neutrons in a supernova to create a large quantity of neutron-rich heavy elements. Second, telescopes looking at actual supernovas do not detect the heavy element spectral emissions that they should if they had been created there. The current favored theory is neutron star collisions or neutron star black hole collisions. Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host (talk) 23:01, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@BobEnyart: Thank you for pointing this out. The article indeed was misleading in this sense, as r-process nucleosynthesis can occur either in supernovae or neutron star mergers. I amended the article to account for this, and I may expand upon it later. ComplexRational (talk) 23:55, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ComplexRational: Wow, that was quick ComplexRational. I noted that you had edited the article. Based on your edit you think it reasonable to leave supernovae in there. The few sources I've read omit that as a possibility. But, I'm not an expert and I'm happy to see some progress on this. Thanks! Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host (talk) 23:59, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2405:205:500D:E2DA:A9D5:80E:89D6:369A (talk) 16:23, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

is this legal to search about uranium235

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 16:33, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Uraniam. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:51, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On the Uranium wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium), under the section "Biotic and abiotic". Following this sentence "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).[59][60]" I believe you should add this sentence: "Recent work suggests that this reduction from U(VI) to U(IV) proceeds via a U(V) intermediate in microbial systems [A][B]."

Using the following references: [A] https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05285 , [B] https://doi.org/10.1021/es048232b ,

Thank you 109.181.50.28 (talk) 08:08, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done And thank you for providing the references. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 03:57, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Under pourbaix diagrams there are two diagrams that are pH/fraction which shouldn´t be there — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:718:1E03:5128:557:C665:6995:304B (talk) 12:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Production_and_mining Does anyone have good sources about the aggregated worldwide production/mining of Uranium which can help in updating it? I could (re)make the graph if I have the numbers. :-)

EnergyIntel (talk) 09:53, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering why Uranium is NOT ranked among the top 1000 vital articles altough it seems to be in excellent condition. Oil, Gas, Coal is but not Uranium. Although it is a major Energy source in many countries. I don't know yet how this is decided so it might be a noob question but I'd love to see the reasoning. For the ranking see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles#Current_total_(1,001_articles)

EnergyIntel (talk) 09:48, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]