A Sea of Uranium

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Aug 21, 2008 1:41 AMMay 17, 2019 8:28 PM
Uranium

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Denise writes, "I just finished my Ph.D. on microbially-mediated uranium bioremediation and chose to get a new tattoo to commemorate this milestone. The tattoo is a uranium atom with each orbital and all 92 electrons represented. The center is blue with a swirl to represent the ocean where I grew up."

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