Working in Paris in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie processed thousands of pounds of pitchblende from the same glass-factory tailings in order to isolate two radioactive elements that had hitherto been unknown: radium and polonium.
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Pitchblende
Synonyms for "pitchblende" (2 found)
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Bulgarian
2 entries- пехбленда noun (a type of uraninite)
- уранит noun (a type of uraninite)
Finnish
1 entries- pikivälke noun (a type of uraninite)
French
1 entries- pechblende noun (a type of uraninite)
German
1 entries- Pechblende noun (a type of uraninite)
Italian
1 entries- pechblenda noun (a type of uraninite)
Russian
3 entries- смоляна́я обма́нка noun (a type of uraninite)
- ура́новая смо́лка noun (a type of uraninite)
- уранини́т noun (a type of uraninite)
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