- Uraninite, also
known as
pitchblende, is a radioactive, uranium-rich
mineral and ore with a
chemical composition that is
largely UO2 but
because of oxidation...
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Pitchblende may
refer to: Uraninite, a
mineral used as a
source of
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Pitchblende was an
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primary uranium ore
mineral is
uraninite (UO2) (previously
known as
pitchblende). A
range of
other uranium minerals can be
found in
various deposits...
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included two
uranium minerals,
pitchblende and
torbernite (also
known as chalcolite). Her
electrometer showed that
pitchblende was four
times as
active as...
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penetrators and
armor plating. The 1789
discovery of
uranium in the
mineral pitchblende is
credited to
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who
named the new
element after...
- Skłodowska-Curie and
Pierre Curie, when it was
extracted from the
uranium ore
pitchblende and
identified solely by its
strong radioactivity: it was the
first element...
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shale and limestone,
Estonia also has
large reserves of phosphorite,
pitchblende, and
granite that
currently are not mined, or not
mined extensively....
- the Bay of Naples, Italy, in 1912.
Starting in the late
Middle Ages,
pitchblende was
extracted from the
Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia...
- minerals, and in even
tinier quantities in
thorium minerals. One ton of
pitchblende typically yields about one
seventh of a gram of radium. One kilogram...
