pitchblende
noun/ˈpɪtʃblɛnd/UK
Etymology
From German Pechblende, from Pech (“pitch”) + Blende (“blende”).
- derived from Pechblende
Definitions
Naturally-occurring uranium oxide, a variety of the mineral uraninite.
- Working in Paris in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie processed thousands of pounds of pitchblende from the same glass-factory tailings in order to isolate two radioactive elements that had hitherto been unknown: radium and polonium.
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