Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Sodium diuranate Na2U2O7·6H2O is a uranium salt also known as the yellow oxide of uranium. Along with ammonium diuranate it was a component in early yellowcakes the ratio of the two species determined by process conditions; yellowcake is now largely a mix of uranium oxides. It is commonly referred to by the initials SDU.In the classical procedure for extracting uranium pitchblende is broken up and mixed with sulfuric and nitric acids.
