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CARNOTITE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carnotite" is a kind of...):
uranium ore (any ore from which uranium can be extracted)
Meronyms (substance of "carnotite"):
atomic number 23; V; vanadium (a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite)