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What is a pitchblende?

What is a pitchblende? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) Naturally-occurring uranium oxide, a variety of the mineral uraninite.
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It would take a deposit of pitchblende richer than anything I've ever heard of to penetrate the lead.
The first discovery of pitchblende in the United States was associated with gold ores at the Wood mine in Gilpin County.
The project at hand is to extract the newly discovered deposits of pitchblende on these satellites of Jupiter.
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.
More illusive than gold and many times more precious, radium, the product of pitchblende, had somehow gotten into his blood.
He was probably one of the few Canadian prospectors of that time who could have identified the pitchblende mineral.

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