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Uranium ore   /jərˈeɪniəm ɔr/   Listen
Uranium ore

noun
1.
Any ore from which uranium can be extracted.





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"Uranium ore" Quotes from Famous Books



... compounds of uranium and thorium, and that it was an atomic property linked to the matter endowed with it, and following it in all its combinations. In the course of her researches Madame Curie observed that certain pitchblendes (oxide of uranium ore, containing also barium, bismuth, etc.) were four times more active (activity being measured by the phenomenon of the ionization of the air) than metallic uranium. Now, no compound containing any other active metal than uranium or thorium ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare


Words linked to "Uranium ore" :   pitchblende, uraninite, ore, radium, actinium, atomic number 88, ac, ra, carnotite, atomic number 89


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