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Definition: Uraninite |
UraniniteNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | An isometric mineral, UO2 , commonly impure with actinide and lanthanide rare earths, radium, helium, and zirconium; strongly radioactive; metamict; generally black; sp gr, 10.9; in pegmatites and veins with lead, tin, and copper minerals; a source of uranium called pitchblende where massive and metamict. See also:pitchblendeSyn:ulrichite; coracite. (references) |
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An important occurrence of pitchblende is at Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, where it is found in large quantities associated with silver.
See also: list of minerals
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Synonym: UraniniteSynonym: pitchblende (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Uraninite |
| English words defined with "uraninite": pitchblende. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "uraninite": black ore, broeggerite ♦ coracite ♦ radioactive mineral ♦ thorian uraninite ♦ uranium minerals. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Uraninite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (uraninite). |
| "Uraninite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uraninite" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
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Containing "uraninite": hydrocarbon-calcite-uraninite-polymetallic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
uraninite | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "uraninite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | uraninit (pitchblende), begblende (pitchblende). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uraniniet (pitchblende), uraniet, pekblende (pitchblende). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | uraninite, pechblende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Uranpecherz (pitchblende), Uraninit (pitchblende), Pechblende (pitchblende). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρανινίτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | uraninite (pitchblende), pechblenda (pitchblende). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aniniteuray uraninite. (various references) uranita. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "uraninite": uraninites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "uraninite" (pronounced 'U*ran"i*nite'): Aconite, Alunite, Anthraconite, Antimonite, Aphanite, Aragonite, Arragonite, Axinite, Balanite, Basanite, Belemnite, Belonite, Bornite, Caledonite, Cancrinite, Colophonite, Conite, Crinite, Cyanite, Dambonite, Echinite, Encrinite, Eschynite, finite, Galenite, Geocronite, Glauconite, indefinite, kainite, Konite, Kyannite, leptynite, Liroconite, Lomonite, manganite, mannite, Maronite, Meionite, Melaconite, Melanite, Melenite, molybdenite, Munite, Necronite, Nontronite, Ornithichnite, Ornithoidichnite, Otoconite, Paragonite, Pentacrinite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-n-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: triennia. | |
-2 letters: aneurin, entrain, inertia, ruinate, taurine, tinnier, uranite, urinate. | |
-3 letters: auntie, inaner, innate, intern, intine, inturn, narine, nature, nutria, ratine, retain, retina, tanner, tinier, tinner, triune, uniter, unrent. | |
-4 letters: anent, antre, aurei, ennui, entia, inane, inert, inner, inter, inure, inurn, irate, niter, nitre, renin, retia, riant, rutin, tenia, terai, tinea, train, trine, tuner. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-n-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: uraninites. | |
+3 letters: antineutrino, internuncial, intrauterine, neutralising, neutralizing, renunciation, renunciative, urinogenital. | |
+4 letters: antineutrinos, antisubmarine, functionaries, genitourinary, housetraining, insubordinate, intermountain, nonfigurative, precautioning, questionnaire, reacquainting, reinoculating, reinoculation, renunciations, reunification, ultrafeminine, uncertainties, underpainting, undoctrinaire, uninformative. | |
+5 letters: antisubversion, antiuniversity, centrifugation, counterraiding, countervailing, denaturalizing, insubordinates, insurrectional, mountaineering, neutralization, overcautioning, preunification, questionnaires, reinoculations, reunifications, unappreciation, underinflation, underpaintings, unidirectional, unromanticized, valetudinarian. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 72 61 6E 69 6E 69 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .-. .- -. .. -. .. - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U r a n i n i t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0072 0061 006E 0069 006E 0069 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558467807580758671 |
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