pitchblende
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pitchblende
1760–70; half translation, half adoption of German Pechblende. See pitch 2, blende
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The elements were found in a mineral called pitchblende that released a powerful form of energy.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
That was true of the off-Broadway musical Viet Rock, and it is even truer of We Bombed In New Haven, a first play by Joseph Heller, whose Catch-22 was a novel of comic pitchblende.
From Time Magazine Archive
They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the pitchblende was analyzed, four faint new lines appeared.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rutherford was there to talk about his new disintegration theory of radioactivity, as part of which he brought out his piece of pitchblende.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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