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pitchblendes

pitchblendes is the plural of pitchblende.

Meaning of pitchblende

Noun

pitchblende (countable and uncountable, plural pitchblendes)

  1. Naturally-occurring uranium oxide, a variety of the mineral uraninite.
    • Working in Paris in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie processed thousands of pounds of pitchblende from the same glass-factory tailings in order to isolate two radioactive elements that had hitherto been unknown: radium and polonium.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 205

Questions about pitchblendes

What is pitchblendes the plural of?
Pitchblendes is the plural of pitchblende.

Words near pitchblendes in the dictionary

  1. pitchah
  2. pitchback
  3. pitchbacks
  4. pitchblack
  5. pitchblende
  6. pitchblendes
  7. pitchbook
  8. pitchbooks
  9. pitchcapping
  10. pitched
  11. pitched a tantrum

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