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Uraninite

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Noun

1. pitchblende, uraninite

a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore

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Uraninite

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noun
a blackish heavy radioactive mineral consisting of uranium oxide in cubic crystalline form together with radium, lead, helium, etc: occurs in coarse granite. Formula: UO2

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Uraninite

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noun
a hard, very heavy, dark-colored, radioactive mineral, UO2, the chief ore of uranium; uranium oxide
see also pitchblende

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Uraninite

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n.
A complex brownish-black mineral, UO2, forming the chief ore of uranium and containing variable amounts of radium, lead, thorium, and other elements. It is isomorphous with thorianite.

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