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URANINITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uraninite mean?
• URANINITE (noun)
The noun URANINITE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: URANINITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
pitchblende; uraninite
Hypernyms ("uraninite" is a kind of...):
uranium ore (any ore from which uranium can be extracted)
Meronyms (substance of "uraninite"):
atomic number 92; U; uranium (a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons)
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