yellowcake

or yel·low cake

[ yel-oh-keyk ]

/ ˈyɛl oʊˌkeɪk /

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noun

a processed oxide of uranium, U3O8, 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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Origin of yellowcake

First recorded in 1945–50; yellow + cake

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How to use yellowcake in a sentence

Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
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A big cake requires a big festival, and Augustus was happy to comply.
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The Stollen was paraded through the city of Dresden, and later an appointed “Stollen girl” cut the cake.
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With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.
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The pink flowers are the largest while those of a yellow color are the smallest.
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The flowers grow in clusters from the extremities of the stalk; they are yellow externally and of a delicate red within.
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He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
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In the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.
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As she peered into the face of Dr. Ashton, her own was scarlet and yellow, and her voice rose to a shriek.
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British Dictionary definitions for yellowcake

yellow cake

noun

informal semirefined uranium ore

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