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URANIUM ORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uranium ore mean? 

URANIUM ORE (noun)
  The noun URANIUM ORE has 1 sense:

1. any ore from which uranium can be extractedplay

  Familiarity information: URANIUM ORE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


URANIUM ORE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any ore from which uranium can be extracted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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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