uranyl Chem.
(ˈjʊərənɪl)
[f. uran-ium + -yl.]
A radical (UO2) held to exist in many compounds of uranium.
| 1850 Watts tr. Gmelin's Handbk. Chem. IV. 181 Chloride of uranyl. 1863 ― Dict. Chem. I. 797 Carbonate of Uranyl and Ammonium. Ibid., Uranyl, U2O2, is a diatomic radicle which may be supposed to exist in the uranic salts, e.g. uranic nitrate. 1884 Frankland & Japp Inorg. Chem. 708 Salts in which the dyad radical uranyl (UviO2) plays the part of a dyad metal. |
b. uranyl chloride, uranyl oxide, uranyl phosphate, uranyl salts: (see quots.).
| 1865 Mansfield Salts 285 The so-called ‘Uranyl’ Salts of Peligot, supposed to be of the form U2O2. 1878 C. M. Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. 337 Uranic oxide (sesquioxide) or Uranyl oxide. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 7/2 Solutions of uranyl salts (nitrate, &c.). 1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. 384 Uranyl-chloride, Uranic-oxychloride. 1903 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. Ser. iv. XVI. 237 The filtering of a precipitate of ammonium uranyl phosphate through a Gooch crucible. |
Hence uraˈnylic a. (See -ic 1 b.)
| 1884 Frankland & Japp Inorg. Chem. 708–711 Uranylic chloride,..bromide,..fluoride,..nitrate,..sulphate,..pyro⁓sulphate,..sulphide. |