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Uranium,  ₉₂U

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General properties
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Appearance	silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air
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Uranium in the periodic table
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Atomic number (Z)	92
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Period	period 7
Block	f-block
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Electron configuration	[Rn] 5f3 6d1 7s2
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 32, 21, 9, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	1405.3 K ​(1132.2 °C, ​2070 °F)
Boiling point	4404 K ​(4131 °C, ​7468 °F)
Density (near r.t.)	19.1 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	17.3 g/cm3
Heat of fusion	9.14 kJ/mol
[[Enthalpy of vaporization|Heat of Template:Engvar]]	417.1 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	27.665 J/(mol·K)
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Atomic properties
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Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 1.38
[[Ionization energy|Template:Engvar energies]]	1st: 597.6 kJ/mol 2nd: 1420 kJ/mol
Atomic radius	empirical: 156 pm
Covalent radius	196±7 pm
Van der Waals radius	186 pm
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Other properties
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Speed of sound thin rod	3155 m/s (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion	13.9 µm/(m·K) (at 25 °C)
Thermal conductivity	27.5 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity	0.280 µΩ·m (at 0 °C)
Magnetic ordering	paramagnetic
Young's modulus	208 GPa
Shear modulus	111 GPa
Bulk modulus	100 GPa
Poisson ratio	0.23
Vickers hardness	1960–2500 MPa
Brinell hardness	2350–3850 MPa
CAS Number	7440-61-1
History
Naming	after planet Uranus, itself named after Greek god of the sky Uranus
Discovery	Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1789)
First isolation	Eugène-Melchior Péligot (1841)
Main isotopes of uranium
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