Pitchblende Definition

pĭchblĕnd
noun
A brown to black, radioactive, massive form of uraninite: pitchblende is the chief ore of uranium and radium.
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Noun

Singular:
pitchblende
Plural:
pitchblendes

Origin of Pitchblende

  • Partial translation of German Pechblende Pech pitch Blende blende blende

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German Pechblende, from Pech (“pitch") + Blende (“blende").

    From Wiktionary

Pitchblende Sentence Examples

  • To extract the metal, the pitchblende is first roasted in order to remove the arsenic and sulphur.

  • Pitchblende attained considerable notoriety towards the end of the 19th century on account of two important discoveries.

  • In 1789 Klaproth isolated from pitchblende a yellow oxide which he viewed as the oxide of a new metal, which he named uranium, after the newly discovered planet of Herschel.

  • Pure pitchblende is U308, which, in relatively good specimens, forms some 80% or more of the whole.

  • After the discovery of the radioactive properties of uranium by Henri Becquerel in 1896, it was noticed that some minerals of uranium, such as pitchblende, were more active than the element itself, and this circumstance suggested that such minerals contained small quantities of some unknown substance or substances possessing radioactive properties in a very high degree.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIT

Words Ending With

EDENDE

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