Crossword-Solution: URANINITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uraninite | n. | A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende. |
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| Pitchblende | 2 answers |
| uranium dioxide mineral | 2 answers |
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Mag." April, 1905.) In Boltwood's investigation, some twenty minerals, with amounts of uranium varying from that in a specimen of uraninite with 74.65 per cent., to that in a monazite with 0.30 per cent., gave a ratio of uranium to radium, constant within about one part in ten.
Pitchblende or uraninite is an intensely black mineral of a specific gravity of 9.5 and is found in commercial quantities in Bohemia, Cornwall in England and some other localities.
There were two other mines that produced the same uraninite ore as the one at which Hanlon was stationed.
Etym: [So called because it occurs in rounded or flattened pieces which look like gum.] (Min.) Defn: A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.
Etym: [1st pitch + blende.] (Min.) Defn: A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite.