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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PITCHBLENDE

Partial translation of German Pechblende, from Pechpitch² (from its black colour) + blende.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PITCHBLENDE

pitchblende  [ˈpɪtʃˌblɛnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PITCHBLENDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pitchblende is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PITCHBLENDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pitchblende

Uraninite

Uraninite is a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore with a chemical composition that is largely UO2, but due to oxidation the mineral typically contains variable U3O8. Additionally due to the decay of the uranium it contains oxides of lead and trace amounts of helium. It may also contain thorium, and rare earth elements. It is most commonly known as pitchblende. The mineral has been known at least since the 15th century from silver mines in the Ore Mountains, on the German/Czech border. The type locality is the town of Jáchymov, on the Czech side of the mountains, where F.E.Brückmann described the mineral in 1772. Pitchblende from the Johanngeorgenstadt deposit in Germany was used by M. Klaproth in 1789 to discover the element uranium. All uraninite minerals contain a small amount of radium as a radioactive decay product of uranium. Uraninite also always contains small amounts of the lead isotopes 206Pb and 207Pb, the end products of the decay series of the uranium isotopes 238U and 235U respectively. Small amounts of helium are also present in uraninite as a result of alpha decay.

Definition of pitchblende in the English dictionary

The definition of pitchblende in the dictionary is a blackish mineral that is a type of uraninite and occurs in veins, frequently associated with silver: the principal source of uranium and radium. Formula: UO2.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PITCHBLENDE


attend
əˈtɛnd
blend
blɛnd
blende
blɛnd
boyfriend
ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd
end
ɛnd
friend
frɛnd
girlfriend
ˈɡɜːlˌfrɛnd
hornblende
ˈhɔːnˌblɛnd
interlend
ˌɪntəˈlɛnd
lease-lend
ˌliːsˈlɛnd
lend
lɛnd
overlend
ˌəʊvəˈlɛnd
pretend
prɪˈtɛnd
recommend
ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd
relend
riːˈlɛnd
send
sɛnd
spend
spɛnd
tend
tɛnd
trend
trɛnd
weekend
ˌwiːkˈɛnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PITCHBLENDE

pitch on
pitch pine
pitch pipe
pitch shot
pitch-and-toss
pitch-black
pitch-cone angle
pitch-dark
pitchbend
pitched
pitched battle
pitcher
pitcher plant
pitcherful
pitchersful
pitchfork
pitchier
pitchiest
pitchily

WORDS THAT END LIKE PITCHBLENDE

allemande
Allende
amende
blonde
Campo Grande
duende
Gironde
Hollande
lande
Mande
monde
Oostende
Ormonde
Ostende
Rio Grande
ronde
seconde
sonde
tout le monde
zinc blende

Synonyms and antonyms of pitchblende in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pitchblende» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PITCHBLENDE

Find out the translation of pitchblende to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pitchblende from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pitchblende» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

沥青铀矿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pechblenda
570 millions of speakers

English

pitchblende
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pitchblende
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بنتشيبليند
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

настуран
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pitchblende
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pitchblende
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pechblende
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pitchblende
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pechblende
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピッチブレンド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

역청 우라늄 광
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pitchblende
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pitchblende
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pitchblende
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिचब्लेंडे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

katranlı blend
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pechblenda
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uraninit
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

настуран
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pehblendă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πισσουρανίτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pikblende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pechblände
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bekblende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pitchblende

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PITCHBLENDE»

The term «pitchblende» is normally little used and occupies the 124.356 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PITCHBLENDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pitchblende

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITCHBLENDE»

Discover the use of pitchblende in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pitchblende and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Report of the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time
St. Joachimsthal Pitchblende 4.88' 60.24 3.22 2. Katanga Black I Pitchblende 6.00 74.9 6.7 6.05 3. Katanga Yellow I Pitchblende 6.07 58.5 8.4 4. Katanga Black Ia Pitchblende 6.00 5. Katanga Yellow Ia Pitchblende 6.13 6. Katanga Black II ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time, Alfred Church Lane, 1939
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Atlas of the Textural Patterns of Ore Minerals and ...
Here, too, dissolution of the pitchblende took place prior to precipitation of marcasite. In addition to the cases described where deformed pitchblende is replaced along the deformation cracks, most important textural patterns exhibiting  ...
S. S. Augustithis, 1995
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PITCHBLENDE DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES By Robert U. King, Frank B. Moore and E. N. Hinrichs ABSTRACT Pitchblende is found in the United States in (1) veins and breccia zones, (2) pyrometasornatic deposits, (3) pegmatites, ...
‎1952
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Uranium Deposits of the World: Asia
Mineralization Pitchblende is the principal uranium mineral; coffinite and U-Ti phases (brannerite) are rare. Molybdenum occurs as Fe-molybdenite or jordisite, transformed into ilsemannite in oxidized sections. Uranium locally associates with ...
Franz J. Dahlkamp, 2009
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
The pitchblende was deposited early in the sequence of vein formation, essentially contemporaneous with quartz and before most of the other ore minerals were formed. At Central City and the adjacent Fall River area, southwest of Central ...
‎1956
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Pitchblende associated with sulfides occurs in several veins on the south slope of Quartz Hill. As shown on plate 9, the pitchblende is largely restricted to a north- south zone about a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long and occurs in the east  ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1950
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
The pitchblende was deposited early in the sequence of vein formation, essentially contemporaneous with quartz and before most of the other ore minerals were formed. At Central City and the adjacent Fall River area, southwest of Central ...
‎1956
8
Professional paper - United States Geological Survey
Brown, consists principally of pitchblende, but tliis mineral is sharph' cut by veinlets one-eighth inch or less in size, composed of sphalerite, pyrite, and some galena. An enlarged vi^w of some of the smaller veinlet3 as seen under the reflecting ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1915
9
Economic Geology of Gilpin County and Adjacent Parts of ...
blende of this specimen show angular outlines, as indicated in figure 11, but more commonly the pitchblende areas are ringlike in cross section, chalcopyrite occupying the center of the ring and inclosing it, as indicated in figure 12. Pyrite and ...
Edson Sunderland Bastin, James Madison Hill, 1917
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Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology of the ...
130 Rickard, Forbes, 1913, Pitchblende from Quartz Hill, Gilpin County, Colorado : Mining and Sci. Press [San Francisco, Calif.], v. 106, no. 23, p. 851-856. Several mines near the west end of Quartz Hill, 1% miles west of Central City, Colo., ...
Thomas M. Kehn, 1960

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PITCHBLENDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pitchblende is used in the context of the following news items.
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Book Review 348: Stalin and the Bomb
The West got its radium from pitchblende ores in Czechoslovakia and Congo; uranium was a nearly useless by-product. Russia got its radium ... «Maui News, Jul 15»
2
The 94th Element
When Martin Heinrich Klaproth isolated element 92 in pitchblende in 1789, he called it uranium after the recently discovered planet Uranus. «London Review of Books, Jul 15»
3
Skyharbour Intersects 0.172% U3O8 Over 2.5 Metres from 2015 …
... where historical exploration yielded high grade uranium grab samples of up to 48% U3O8 in a massive pitchblende vein exposed at surface. «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
4
NexGen Drills Intensive Radioactivity at Arrow - Rapid Expansion in …
High grade mineralization in the A2 shear was observed as very dense accumulations of massive pitchblende. The strength of radioactivity ... «Junior Mining Network, Jul 15»
5
Radium-223 in Bone-Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Current Data and …
... radioactive properties of a complex ore, “pitchblende,” which had radioactive emissions in excess of that explainable by the uranium content. «Cancer Network, Jul 15»
6
Fission's First Summer Holes Hit High-Grades at R600W and R780E
The degree of radioactivity within the mineralized intervals is highly variable and associated with visible pitchblende mineralization. «Geology for Investors, Jul 15»
7
Niger – Africa's Rising Uranium Hotspot
... of roll-front type, either reduced consisting of pitchblende and coffinite (Akouta, Arlit, Afasto, Madaouela) or oxidized minerals (Imouraren). «InvestorIntel, Jun 15»
8
Uranium Mining 101: Part 1 — Exploration
The first radioactivity survey using the device came years later, when geophysicist G.C. Ridland carried out testing over pitchblende-bearing ... «TheStreet.com, May 15»
9
Jon Fine talks about the 90s indie scene and his new memoir, Your …
For some additional perspective on the era, he interviewed fellow travelers from other acts including Mission of Burma, Pitchblende, Silkworm, ... «Chicago Reader, May 15»
10
10 Bands You Weren't Cool Enough to Like in the 80s and 90s
It turns out the center cannot hold, because there are too many competing ideas, and so that band turns out a super-unstable pitchblende (but ... «Vanity Fair, May 15»

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