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URANIUM ORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any ore from which uranium can be extracted
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("uranium ore" is a kind of...):
ore (a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined)
Meronyms (substance of "uranium ore"):
Ac; actinium; atomic number 89 (a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores)
atomic number 88; Ra; radium (an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uranium ore"):
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)
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