uranious

English

Etymology

uranium +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnɪəs

Adjective

uranious (comparative more uranious, superlative most uranious)

1. Of or containing uranium.
   • 1883 January, Captain Abney, “Recent Advances in Photography”, in Popular Science, volume 22, number 19, →ISSN, page 398:

     This differs from the previous process in that the gallic acid, in the one case, reduces the silver solution to the state of metallic silver ; and, in the other case, the uranious image itself reduces it to the state of silver oxide.

   • 1905 December 7, W. R., “The Death-Knell of the Atom”, in Nature, volume 73, number 1884, →ISSN, page 132:

     Our action's spontaneous in atoms uranious / Or radious, actinious or thorious : / But for others, the gleam of a heaven-sent beam / Must encourage their efforts laborious.

   • 1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:

     When the air becomes uranious / We will all go simultaneous

2. (chemistry) uranous.