Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A yellow ore of uranium and radium with composition K(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A more or less impure hydrated vanadate of uranium and potash, occurring somewhat abundantly in Montrose county and elsewhere in Colorado: found as a yellow crystalline powder or in loosely coherent masses. It contains radium and is said to be highly radio-active.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A yellow mineral that is a potassium uranyl vanadate that is a major ore or uranium, with the chemical formula K2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium
Etymologies
- French, after Marie Adolphe Carnot (died 1920), French mining engineer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Did he happen to know where they might find an ore called carnotite?”
“But the discovery in 1924 of a large pitchblende deposit in the Belgian Congo provided a more dependable radium supply and the interest in American carnotite fizzled.”
“The first plant was created in France and worked very successfully, but afterwards manufactures were founded in other countries, the most important of which are now in America, where great quantities of radium ore, named "carnotite," are available.”
“In August 1942, the company sealed a deal to mine carnotite in Cane Valley; the agreement stipulated that VCA must employ Navajo miners.”
The Washington Post: Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins
“Specifically, Roosevelt was interested in developing a domestic supply of carnotite, which yields uranium and vanadium.”
The Washington Post: Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins
“In August 1942, the company sealed a deal to mine carnotite in Cane Valley; the agreement stipulated that the VCA must employ Navajo miners.”
The Washington Post: Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins
“This was considered plentiful compared to the uranium in the carnotite stock.”
“Anyone who found a new deposit would also earn a fine bonus, $10,000, on the first delivery of carnotite or similar rocks.”
“He discovered carnotite ore of the same chemical composition as the rock from the Cameron pits that had been processed in Tuba City.”
“VCA still sent Monument No. 2 ore to Durango, but Kerr-McGee, Rare Metals, and Texas-Zinc Minerals Corp. had hired hundreds of Navajos to grind carnotite from other reservation uranium mining districts.”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
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