depleted uranium

depleted uranium

English

Noun

depleted uranium (uncountable)

1. Uranium that contains a reduced (depleted) amount of the fissile isotope U-235 compared to natural uranium; it is used in applications where the nuclear properties of the uranium are not important, and the uranium is instead being used for its mechanical or chemical properties.

Synonyms

• DU
• depletalloy (historical)

Antonyms

• enriched uranium

Coordinate terms

• natural uranium
• slightly-enriched uranium
• low-enriched uranium
• highly-enriched uranium

Translations

uranium that contains reduced U-235

Chinese: Mandarin: 貧鈾／贫铀 (zh) (pínyóu) Finnish: köyhdytetty uraani French: uranium appauvri (fr) m German: abgereichertes Uran n Icelandic: sneytt úran n, rýrt úran n Italian: uranio impoverito m Japanese: 劣化ウラン (rekka uran) Russian: обеднённый ура́н m (obednjónnyj urán) Swedish: utarmat uran (sv) n

Further reading

• depleted uranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia