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yellowcake
or yel·low cake
[ yel-oh-keyk ]
noun
- a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yellowcake1
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Example Sentences
Unlike, say, the yellowcake hype that helped launch a war in Iraq...
From The Daily Beast
South Africa mined uranium, and sent 500 tons of yellowcake to Israel from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
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