Uranium is a silvery-white metal that’s also really dense. It is more plentiful then mercury and silver. Uranium is also ductile and malleable.The Elements that Uranium combines with are nonmetal such as Oxygen, Sulfur, Chlorine, Fluorine, Phosphorus, and Bromine. Uranium also dissolves in acids and reacts with water. When forming compounds it turns a greenish-yellowish color. Uranium is the heaviest element found in nature. It most commonly found in pitchblende, carnotite and uranintie. It’s can also be found in phosphate rock and monazite sands. 1% uranium oxide and dating back to 79 A.D., has been found near Naples, Italy.

This element was discovered by Martin H. Klaproth in 1789. He found it in a mineral called pitchblende. Pitchblende is black and a form of uranium-oxide. It is one of the primary mineral ores of Uranium. It's also a variety of uraninite. It was named after the planet Uranus since the planet was discovered in 1781 eight years before the element. However its radioactivity wasn’t discovered until 1896. Later a French chemist by the name of Eugène-Melchoir Péligot isolated uranium by heating it with potassium in platinum crucible. When scientists studied Uranium they discovered that it’s half like if 4.6 billion years.