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uranium ore

DEFINITIONS OF: uranium ore

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n any ore from which uranium can be extracted

Types:
carnotite
a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium
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
Type of:
ore
a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
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