uranium ore

Other forms: uranium ores

Definitions of uranium ore
  1. noun
    any ore from which uranium can be extracted
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    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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