carnotite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carnotite
1895–1900; named after A. Carnot (died 1920), French mining official; see -ite 1
Example Sentences
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The ore in the Fergana Valley is rather like the carnotite of Colorado, a complex uranium-vanadium mineral.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U. S. with its low-grade carnotite could not compete and soon dropped out of the world picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eager to develop domestic sources of radium, he studied mining, learned that radium could be obtained from carnotite, developed a reduction plant at Denver to make domestic radium available.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, Belgian prospectors had discovered veins of pitchblende in the Belgian Congo no less than 20 times richer than the U. S. carnotite.
From Time Magazine Archive
The powder is definitely carnotite, and it matches ore produced on the Colorado Plateau.
From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
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