curite
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of curite
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.
“The color is lighter than that of curite.”
“The present note relates to the behaviour of uranium minerals such as uraninite, curite, and uranophane in high-tension separators.”
“1982, R. W. Boyle, Geochemical Prospecting for Thorium and Uranium Deposits, Elsevier, Developments in Economic Geology: 16, page 68, Yellow, orange, greenish, and bluish oxidation products of uranium and copper comprising gummite and containing minerals such as curite, liebigite, malachite and azurite may be developed locally in the oxidized rubble and gossans.”
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Etymology
From Curie (“a surname”) + -ite, after Pierre Curie and/or his wife Marie, early researchers of radioactivity — the ore being radioactive due to its uranium.
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