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pitchblende

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Noun
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pitch=blende

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pitchblende has 1 sense

  • pitchblende(n = noun.substance) 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;
  • is a kind of uranium ore

CIDE DICTIONARY

pitchblenden. [1st pitch + blende.].
     A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pitchblende, n. a mineral form of uranium oxide occurring in pitchlike masses and yielding radium.

Etymology
G Pechblende (as PITCH(2), BLENDE)
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