CARNOTITE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("carnotite" is a kind of...):

uranium ore (any ore from which uranium can be extracted)

Meronyms (substance of "carnotite"):

atomic number 23; V; vanadium (a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite)

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