uraninite
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~ 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
uranium 238
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~ the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239
uranium 235
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~ a uranium isotope with mass number 235; capable of sustaining chain reactions
uranium ore
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~ any ore from which uranium can be extracted