depleted uranium

See also: depleted-uranium

English

Noun

depleted uranium (uncountable)

Uranium that contains a reduced (depleted) amount of the fissile isotope U-235 compared to natural uranium; it is used in applications where radioactivity is not needed.
Synonym: DU

Antonym: enriched uranium

Translations

uranium that contains reduced U-235

Chinese:
Mandarin: 貧鈾 (zh), 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 n

Further reading

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