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How to use pitchblende in a sentence

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The first discovery of pitchblende in the United States was associated with gold ores at the Wood mine in Gilpin County.
The hint of a new element in pitchblende materialized in July 1898, when the couple reported gathering a substance that was 400 times more active than metallic uranium.
It is worth recalling the history of this treatment, which began when American, James Douglas, discovered extensive pitchblende deposits on his Western mining properties.
The Curies resolved to learn as much as they could about the source of radioactivity in pitchblende, the ore with which Becquerel originally worked.
The most common ore of the element is pitchblende, although it is also present in other minerals, such as uraninite, carnotite, uranophane, and coffinite.
It was a waste product from the production of radium from the pitchblende deposits around Great Bear Lake in northern Canada.
He was probably one of the few Canadian prospectors of that time who could have identified the pitchblende mineral.
During the early years of radium and uranium refinery operations in Port Hope, highgrade pitchblende ores were processed.
The waste dates back to the 1930s when radium was extracted from pitchblende ores for medical and industrial applications at a refinery in the municipality.
The first element to be discovered by radiochemical analysis, polonium was discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie, who were investigating the radioactivity of a certain pitchblende, a uranium ore.
By the hypothesis of the existence of a very radioactive unknown substance present in very small quantity, she undertook, with Pierre Curie, research for this substance in the uranium mineral called pitchblende.
By 1902, 0.1 gram of pure radium chloride was prepared by refining several tons of pitchblende residues, and by 1910 Marie Curie and André-Louis Debierne had isolated the metal itself.
During the early years of refinery operations, high-grade pitchblende ores from the Port Radium mine in the Northwest Territories were shipped to Port Hope and processed for the recovery of radium.
A ton of pitchblende ore contains about 0.15 mg of actinium.
Examples from Classical Literature
With his dog team on his second journey in search of pitchblende he had traveled fifty miles, and the day was still young.
More illusive than gold and many times more precious, radium, the product of pitchblende, had somehow gotten into his blood.
The project at hand is to extract the newly discovered deposits of pitchblende on these satellites of Jupiter.
It would take a deposit of pitchblende richer than anything I've ever heard of to penetrate the lead.
Suppose a bearer of the Medal of Honor formed a stock corporation to exploit the pitchblende of Callisto.
From the other camp Johnny Thompson went in search of pitchblende, only to return empty-handed.
It occurs in the pitchblende of Saxony, and the uranite of Cornwall.
Uranium occurs chiefly as pitchblende, which is an impure oxide.
Pitchblende is the best, but carnotite, which is a gray rock with yellowish streaks, is also good ore.
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