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Chemical data
- Formula
- O2U
- Molecular weight
- 270.028 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- dioxouranium
- SMILES
- O=[U]=O
- InChIKey
- FCTBKIHDJGHPPO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 34.1 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- uranium
- Mass
- 270.040617
- Image
- UO2 Pellet.jpg
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- Commons category
- Uranium dioxide
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- canonical SMILES
- O=[U]=O
- chemical formula
- O₂U
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Encyclopedic overview
Uranium dioxide or uranium(IV) oxide ( UO2), also known as urania or uranous oxide, is an oxide of uranium, and is a black, radioactive, crystalline powder that naturally occurs in the mineral uraninite. It is used in nuclear fuel rods in nuclear reactors. A mixture of uranium and plutonium dioxides is used as MOX fuel. It has been used as an orange, yellow, green, and black color in ceramic glazes and glass.
Production
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “uranium dioxide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.