Phosphorus was discovered in 1669 by Hennig Brand. The word phosphorus originates
from the two Greek words phôs, meaning light, and phoros, meaning bearer, due to the …

Uranium minerals have been known since the discovery of U by Martin Heinrich Klaproth
1789, in when he obtained yellow powder of UO 3 from Saxonian pitchblende. However …

Volume 38 of Reviews in Mineralogy provides detailed reviews of various aspects of the
mineralogy and geochemistry of uranium. We have attempted to produce a volume that …

Approximately five percent of all known minerals contain U as an essential structural
constituent (Mandarino 1999). Uranium minerals display a remarkable structural and …

The crystal structures of uranyl minerals and inorganic uranyl compounds are important for
understanding the genesis of U deposits, the interaction of U mine and mill tailings with the …

Over the past four decades, the number of inorganic oxide and oxy-salt phases containing
stoichiometric quantities of hexavalent uranium has increased exponentially from a few …

By 1911, the atomic weight of uranium had been refined to 238.5 (Gmelin, vol. A2, 1980a).
The natural isotope 235 U was discovered in 1935 by mass spectrometry. The artificial …

A hierarchical structural classification is developed for Utu minerals and inorganic phases,
based on the polymerization of coordination polyhedra of higher bond-valence. The Utu …

There are nearly 200 mineral species that contain uranium as a necessary structural
constituent (Fleischer and Mandarino 1995), despite the low crustal abundance of U (-2.7 …

79Se is a long-lived (1.1× 106 yrs) fission product which is chemically and radiologically
toxic. Under Eh–pH conditions typical of oxidative alteration of spent nuclear fuel, selenite …