Transuranic is an English word with synonyms like metal. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Transuranic meaning
Of an element: lying beyond uranium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 92.
Synonyms of Transuranic
Using Transuranic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of an element: lying beyond uranium in the periodic table; having an atomic number greater than 92.
- Useful related words include: metallic element, metal.
- In the example corpus, transuranic often appears in combinations such as: transuranic elements, transuranic waste, the transuranic.
Context around Transuranic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Transuranic
- In this selection, "transuranic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, consume, overall, characterizing, elements, waste and element stand out and add context to how "transuranic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 of transuranic waste compared and a different transuranic element with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "transuranic" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with transuranic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But the overall transuranic program nationwide is very strategic for Perma-Fix. (12 words)
Although minute quantities of some transuranic elements occur naturally, they were all first discovered in laboratories. (16 words)
For some of the synthetically produced transuranic elements, available samples have been too small to determine crystal structures. (18 words)
As a breeder reactor type, it reprocesses the spent fuel, extracting both Uranium and transuranics, leaving only 0.1% of transuranic waste compared to conventional once-through uranium-fueled light water reactors currently in use. (35 words)
But the NC State team has now validated that the technique works for characterizing transuranic radioactive materials, and fine-tuned the technique so that it can be done in days instead of weeks. (33 words)
Fast reactors have the potential to produce less transuranic waste because all actinides are fissionable with fast neutrons, citation but they are more difficult to build and more expensive to operate. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
In particular, the Integral Fast Reactor was a proposed nuclear reactor with a nuclear fuel cycle that produced no transuranic waste and in fact, could consume transuranic waste.
But the overall transuranic program nationwide is very strategic for Perma-Fix.
But the NC State team has now validated that the technique works for characterizing transuranic radioactive materials, and fine-tuned the technique so that it can be done in days instead of weeks.
Although minute quantities of some transuranic elements occur naturally, they were all first discovered in laboratories.
As a breeder reactor type, it reprocesses the spent fuel, extracting both Uranium and transuranics, leaving only 0.1% of transuranic waste compared to conventional once-through uranium-fueled light water reactors currently in use.
Ball, p. 123 Because many of the transuranic elements are highly unstable and decay quickly, they are challenging to detect and characterize when produced.
Discovery The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939 Mendelevium was the ninth transuranic element to be synthesized.
Fast reactors have the potential to produce less transuranic waste because all actinides are fissionable with fast neutrons, citation but they are more difficult to build and more expensive to operate.
For some of the synthetically produced transuranic elements, available samples have been too small to determine crystal structures.
Of the transuranic elements —those with atomic numbers greater than 92—only plutonium and neptunium occur naturally on Earth.
The transuranium elements (also known as transuranic elements) are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 (the atomic number of uranium ).
This amount declines slowly as the americium decays into neptunium -237, a different transuranic element with a much longer half-life (about 2.14 million years).
Common combinations with transuranic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: