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carnotite

NOUN
  1. a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium

How To Use carnotite In A Sentence

  • It is found in a number of minerals, including vanadinite, carnotite, roscoelite, and patronite.
  • The most common ore of the element is pitchblende, although it is also present in other minerals, such as uraninite, carnotite, uranophane, and coffinite.
  • He already knew ore -- the glossy, sub-metallic, pitchy black luster of uraninite or pitchblende; the yellows of autunite and carnotite; the variant and confusing greens of tobernite. First Lensman
  • The most common ore of the element is pitchblende, although it is also present in other minerals, such as uraninite, carnotite, uranophane, and coffinite.
  • As it happened, in addition to radium, carnotite rock also contained much larger quantities of a metal called vanadium, which proved to be a hardening agent when blended into steel. Yellow Dirt
  • Autunite is relatively abundant locally in Paleozoic-age sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, where it is associated with carnotite and a variety of other uranium minerals.
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