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Carnotite is a pot****ium
uranium vanadate radioactive mineral with
chemical formula K2(UO2)2(VO4)2ยท3H2O. The
water content can vary and
small amounts...
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other uranium minerals can be
found in
various deposits.
These include carnotite, tyuyamunite,
torbernite and autunite. The davidite-brannerite-absite...
- be a
defining constituent, such as
uranium in uraninite, autunite, and
carnotite, or
present as
trace impurities, as in zircon. The
decay of a radioactive...
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Petrified wood
mineralized with
carnotite from St. George, Utah...
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hundreds of minerals,
including uraninite (the most
common uranium ore),
carnotite, autunite, uranophane, torbernite, and coffinite.
Significant concentrations...
- thorium,
including uraninite and its
varieties cleveite and pitchblende,
carnotite and mo****te (a
group name; "mo****te"
usually refers to mo****te-(Ce))...
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carnotite was not known.
Carnotite was
suspected to
contain radium as
early as 1903, on the
basis of the
anomalously high
radioactivity of
carnotite ores...
- uranium-bearing (U-238) ore
samples (autunite, torbernite, uraninite, and
carnotite from the "Colorado
plateau region") Low-level
radiation sources: beta-alpha...
- The
United States took over as
leading producer in the
early 1910s. The
Carnotite sands in
Colorado provide some of the element, but
richer ores are found...
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radiation shielding Pitchblende (UO2) in
uraninite placer deposits;
carnotite (K2(UO2)2(VO4)2 3H2O) in
placer deposits Vanadium V Alloys, catalysts...
