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Uranium essay



Uranium is a naturally occurring very hard, heavy, silvery element. It was discovered in
1789 by the German Physicist Martin Klaproth found the strange silvery object while studying samples from silver mines in the Bohemian Kingdom (Czech Republic). He named his new finding Uranium after the planet Uranus. Uranium is referred to as a ‘special radioactive element' because it is capable of undergoing coolant for. He silver fission.

For years Uranium was used as a ceramic glazes and for tinting in early photography.
Its radioactive properties where not noticesed until around 1866. And it’s potential for an energy source was not manifested until the mid-20th century.

Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein
wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by
Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward
Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify
Uranium-235 which might be...