pitchblende

How To Use pitchblende In A Sentence

• The Curies resolved to learn as much as they could about the source of radioactivity in pitchblende, the ore with which Becquerel originally worked.
• 72Horovitz and Hönigschmid purified lead out of 100 kg of lead sulfate from the Joachimsthal pitchblende, Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
• The first discovery of pitchblende in the United States was associated with gold ores at the Wood mine in Gilpin County.
• But an unexpected fact was noted: certain minerals (pitchblende, chalcolite, autunite) had a greater activity than might be expected on the basis of their uranium or thorium content. Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
• Polonium was the first element to be discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre as they analyzed pitchblende, an ore of uranium, in 1898.
• We found that pitchblende contains at least two radioactive materials, one of which, accompanying bismuth, has been given the name polonium, while the other, paired with barium, has been called radium.
• We found that pitchblende contains at least two radioactive materials, one of which, accompanying bismuth, has been given the name polonium, while the other, paired with barium, has been called radium.
• The most common ore of the element is pitchblende, although it is also present in other minerals, such as uraninite, carnotite, uranophane, and coffinite.
• But an unexpected fact was noted: certain minerals (pitchblende, chalcolite, autunite) had a greater activity than might be expected on the basis of their uranium or thorium content. Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
• The story of the Curie's four-year struggle to purify, purify, and purify over again the components of pitchblende has now been told in popular novels, plays, and motion pictures.