uranyl

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the linear dioxouranium(VI) cation UO2^2+, a common structural unit in uranium(VI) compounds and complexes

   Uranyl nitrate contains the uranyl ion UO2^2+.

Common collocations

• uranyl nitrate Noun + noun

Formed in nineteenth-century scientific vocabulary from New Latin uranium + -yl, the chemical suffix used for a group treated as a radical. Uranium itself was named after the planet Uranus; uranyl is recorded in English from 1850.

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