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Webster 1913 Edition


Uranite

U′ra-nite

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Noun.
[Cf. G.
uranit
, F.
uranite
.]
(Min.)
A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.

Webster 1828 Edition


Uranite

U'RANITE

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Noun.
An ore or phosphate of uranium, called also uran-glimmer, and uran-mica. It is of a lemon yellow gold color, or yellowish brown, sometimes of an apple green or emerald color. It occurs crystallized in rectangular prisms, in imperfect octahedrons, &c. Its structure is lamellar, and it yields to the knife.
Uranite is found in primitive earths, in three states, crystallized, compact, and pulverulent.

Definition 2024


uranite

uranite

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uranite (countable and uncountable, plural uranites)

  1. A dark, lustrous, heavy mineral, a source of uranium and radium.

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