uranicadj.1
/jᵿˈranɪk/, U.S. /jʊˈrænɪk/ Chemistry.
Of or containing uranium, esp. in one of its higher oxidation states (often +6); designating such a state. Contrasted with uranous adj. 1.
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1819 F. Bache Syst. Chem. for Students of Med. 84 If it [sc. peroxide of uranium] should prove to be capable of neutralizing salifiable bases, it would be more properly called uranic acid.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 246 Uranic Ochre.
1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxiii. 203 The uranous salts are green, whilst the uranic compounds are yellow.
1904 Woman's Med. Jrnl. 14 15/1 A study of uranic radiation by M. Becquerel had led her [sc. Mme. Curie] to these investigations.
1921 B. Moore Biochem. iii. 43 The experiments with uranic hydroxide and ferric hydroxide were made concurrently.
1958 Industr. & Engin. Chem. 50 1768/1 In the cathode chamber, uranium(VI) is reduced to the quadrivalent state and precipitated as a uranic double fluoride.
2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten xx. 251 This power [to fog a photographic plate] was possessed not only by uranic salts but uranous ones too, even though these were not phosphorescent or fluorescent.
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uranicadj.2
/jᵿˈranɪk/, U.S. /jʊˈrænɪk/ Now chiefly historical.
Heavenly, celestial; astronomical. Contrasted with telluric (telluric adj.2).
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1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xii. 377 Drawing accurately ‘his Meridian Line’, on I know not what Telluric or Uranic principles.
1892 Academy 41 43/3 Another similar ouranic creature is the Rainbow, ‘a living monster’, according to the Karens of Burmah.
1962 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Oct. 148 That the conception of Śiva had also been affected by later ouranic beliefs..does not detract from the essentially chthonic nature of Śiva in Cambodia.
1998 B. Zimmerman Herman Melville iii. 44 The link between faith and the uranic science seemed to be quite natural, quite proper.
2008 A. Guilherme tr. L. Boff Essent. Care vi. 52 The uranic (heaven) experience also generated, as did the telluric (earth) experience, a form of spirituality and of politics.
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uranicadj.3
/jᵿˈranɪk/, U.S. /jʊˈrænɪk/ Physical Anthropology. Now disused.
Of or relating to the palate. Chiefly in uranic index n. a measure of the shape of the palate, consisting of the ratio of its external breadth to its length; cf. palatal index n. at palatal adj. and n. Compounds.
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1898 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 27 280 The parabolic palate has a mean staphylinic index of 71.2 for both sexes, a mean uranic index, male 111.5 and female 109.9, and a dental index of 41.5 in the male and 43.5 in the female skulls.
1899 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 28 68 (note) The staphylinic index is based on internal and the uranic on external palatal measurements, the breadth in either case being taken at the level of the second molar tooth.
1930 A. Hrdlička Anthropol. Surv. Alaska 275 The upper dental arch index (L × 100 / B), now being used in preference to the unwieldy ‘uranic index’ (B × 100 / L) of Turner, is rather high.
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