Meanings
plural curites
- uncountableusuallychemistryAn orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.
The color is lighter than that of curite.
1956, Walter Fred Hunt, editor, American Mineralogist, volume 41, page 5552 more examples
The present note relates to the behaviour of uranium minerals such as uraninite, curite, and uranophane in high-tension separators.
1962, Thomas Arthur Rickard, editor, The Mining Magazine, volumes 106-107, page 91982, 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.
Origin
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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