来自1789年，其发现者德国化学家和矿物学家Martin Heinrich Klaproth以当时新发现的行星Uranus为这种金属元素命名。比较cerium, 来自谷物女神Ceres.
英文词源
uranium
uranium: [18] Ouranós was an ancient sky god in Greek mythology, consort of Gaea and father of Cronos and the Titans (his name was a personification of Greek ouranós ‘heaven’). The Romans called him ūranus, and the name soon came to be applied to the seventh planet from the sun after it was discovered in 1781. (Its discoverer, the German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel, originally named it Georgium sidus ‘Georgian planet’, as an obsequious compliment to King George III, and others suggested that it should be called Herschel after the man who found it, but in the end the customary practice of naming after a classical deity prevailed.) The term uranium was derived from the planet’s name in 1789 by the German chemist Martin Klaproth, and is first recorded in English in 1797.
uranium (n.)
rare metallic element, 1797, named 1789 in Modern Latin by its discoverer, German chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), for the recently found planet Uranus (q.v.) + element ending -ium.
实用例句
1. It was actually used for enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.
实际上，它是用来将铀浓缩以制造武器。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Enriched uranium is a key component of a nuclear weapon.
浓缩铀是核武器的关键组成部分。
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3. Uranium is soluble in sea water.
铀可溶解于海水。
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4. They went over nationwide in search of uranium mines.
他们为了探寻铀矿走遍了全国.
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5. Only 7 uranium atoms of every 1,000 are U - 235.
