uranium series

uranium series
the radioactive series that starts with uranium 238 and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 206.
Also, uranium-radium series /yoo ray"nee euhm ray"dee euhm/.

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      set of unstable heavy nuclei constituting one of the four radioactive series (q.v.).

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