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Carnotite

Definition: Carnotite

Carnotite

Noun

1. A yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Carnotite

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A monoclinic mineral 2[K2 (UO2 )2 (VO4 ) (sub 2) .3H2 O] ; bright yellow to lemon- and greenish-yellow; strongly radioactive; commonly occurs mixed with tyuyamunite; widespread in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona; occurs chiefly in crossbedded sandstones of Triassic or Jurassic age, either disseminated or as relatively pure masses around petrified or carbonized vegetal matter. Secondary in origin, having been formed from the action of meteoritic waters on preexisting uranium minerals; a source of uranium and radium.Syn:yellow ore. (references)

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Crosswords: Carnotite

English words defined with "carnotite": atomic number 23v, vanadium. (references)
Specialty definitions using "carnotite": radioactive mineral, rattlesnake ore, rimrockinguranium mineralsvanadium ore. (references)

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Derivations: Carnotite

Derivations

Words beginning with "carnotite": carnotites. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Carnotite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-t-t"

-1 letter: anoretic, contrite, creation, interact, reaction, taconite, traction.

-2 letters: aconite, carotin, cattier, ceratin, certain, citator, citrate, cittern, cointer, cottier, creatin, enactor, erotica, intreat, iterant, nattier, nictate, nitrate, noticer, ricotta, tacrine, taction, tantric, tertian, tetanic, tonetic, tritone.

-3 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, aortic, aroint, atoner, atonic, attire, attorn, canter, cantor, carnet, carnie, carton, cation, cattie, centai.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: antierotic, carnotites, detraction, eructation, extraction, recitation, retraction, trajection.

 

+2 letters: actinometer, actinometry, altercation, contractile, contractive, contrariety, contrastive, creationist, crepitation, detractions, eructations, extractions, extrication, fractionate, interaction, interatomic, intercostal, metrication, ratiocinate, recantation, recitations, reluctation, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, teratogenic, trajections, transection.

 

+3 letters: acetonitrile, actinometers, actinometric, altercations, antielectron, antientropic, contractible, contradicted, counterstain, creationists, crepitations, encrustation, exercitation, extrications, fractionated, fractionates, indoctrinate, inspectorate, interactions, intercoastal, intercostals, metrications, nonarchitect, nonstrategic, obstetrician, petrifaction, practitioner, privatdocent, putrefaction, ratiocinated, ratiocinates, reactivation, recantations, recontacting, reluctations, reticulation, retinotectal, retroactions, scatteration, technocratic, theoretician, transections, transfection, trichopteran, trochanteric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Carnotite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 6E 6F 74 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-.    -.    ---    -    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101110 01101111 01110100 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#110 &#111 &#116 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 006E 006F 0074 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

376784808186758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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