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The orang-utang
Uranate
(n.)
A salt of uranic acid.
Urania
(n.)
One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and
patron of astronomy.
Urania
(n.)
A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the
West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind
wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble
butterflies.
Uranian
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian
year.
Uranic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
Uranic
(a.)
Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium;
specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a
valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.
Uranin
(n.)
An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red
substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar
yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its
solutions. See Fluorescein.
Uraninite
(n.)
A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some
lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses
with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.
Uraniscoplasty
(n.)
The process of forming an artificial palate.
Uraniscoraphy
(n.)
Alt. of Uraniscorrhaphy
Uraniscorrhaphy
(n.)
Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
Uranite
(n.)
A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or
lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
Uranitic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to uranium; containing uranium.
Uranium
(n.)
An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare
minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard,
nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used
to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied
by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in
porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.
Uranographic
(a.)
Alt. of Uranographical
Uranographical
(a.)
Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an
uranographic treatise.
Uranographist
(n.)
One practiced in uranography.
Uranography
(n.)
A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly
bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
Uranolite
(n.)
A meteorite or aerolite.