Following the Actinides series, uranium is a silver-gray metallic chemical element, symbol U, and atomic number 92, located in group 3 of the periodic table, composed of 92 protons and 92 electrons, it is of low radioactivity, malleable, hard and dense, having the highest atomic weight unlike the other elements, it is not free in nature, its natural state is in oxide and complex salt together with other minerals. Its discoverer was Martin Heninrich Klaproth, a German chemist in the year 1789, who gave it its name derived from Greek mythology and in honor of the planet Uranus discovered in the year 1781.
It is given supernatural powers, since by doing experiments with uranium salts in glass containers and exposing it in the dark under ultraviolet light, it was lit with a mysterious fluorescence of color and extraordinary brightness, a phenomenon that delighted and even more frightened, disturbing To the men of the Victorian era, by the late 19th century it was discovered that uranium possesses otherworldly properties. In the year 1896, it was Dr. Marie Curie who gave it the qualification of radioactivity, using the word radio that denotes ray of light or beam of light, its usefulness ranges from the most complex as fuels for weapons and nuclear reactors, and the simplest how to color glass.
As in other known elements we are exposed to uranium naturally, in the air, water, food, the soil of vegetable crops, in this small amount it does not harm the human body, but large amounts destroy and kill cells, causing malfunctioning in them and causing genetic mutations that are transmitted to the future generation. Cancer is one of the most frequent diseases when exposed to this radioactivity, heat being one of the potentially useful secondary products, which is the most powerful source that exists inside the earth, for this reason scientistsThey say that uranium was one of those that helped shape the planet earth in its formation, furthermore, scientists of the time were not aware of the long and short-term damage to health.
