• Liz@midwest.social
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      6 months ago

      Don’t you be lying up in this thread! Uranium is very boring looking. Just another grey metal.

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        6 months ago

        well yes but also uranium dissolved in glass is fluorescent

        and uranium salts are bright yellow

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          6 months ago

          You can get loads of pretty uranium colors in solution. I love me some chemistry, where the answer to the question “what color is it?” is preceded by “well it depends on the oxidation state…”

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              The answer to the question is preceded by the phrase. Yeah, it was tricky grammar but I didn’t feel like trying to come up with a more clear phrasing.

              Anyway, as in “Well, that depends on the oxidation state. Aqueous +2 would give you…”