Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ore of uranium, of an emerald-green, grass-green, leek-green, or yellow color, transparent or subtranslucent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

Etymologies

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uran- + -ite

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Examples

  • AUTUNITE, or CALCO-URANITE, a mineral which is one of the "uranium micas," differing from the more commonly occurring torbernite (_q. v._) or cupro-uranite in containing calcium in place of copper.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • In addition, some of Commander Douvrin's intelligence people had discovered that the only source of fissionables and radioactives for the planet was a complex of uranite mines, separation plants, refineries and reaction-plants on the smaller of Aditya's two continents, Austragonia.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Fernando Po, Bavaria, and Cornwall; phosphates of manganese; phosphate of copper; yellow and green uranite; phosphates of alumina, including the blue spar, which has been mistaken for lapis-lazuli, and the phosphate of alumina known as turquois, found only in Persia, and esteemed as an ornament.

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

  • _Oxyd of uranite_, at St. Simphorien de Marmagne, in the department of La Côte d'Or.

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

  • A collection of tin ore, cobalt, uranite, &c. from Saxony.

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

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