Pitchblende : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pitchblende	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pitchblende
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pitchblende n 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 Synonym(s): uraninite, pitchblende
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pitchblende \Pitch"blende`\, n. [1st pitch + blende.] (Min.) A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See {Uraninite}.