Friends of Mineralogy - That's hot. Uraninite is uranium oxide, and had many names before uranium was identified, including “pitchblende,” “schwarz beck-erz” (which translates to something like “black basin ore”), and “pseudogalena.”
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Control of the compositions and morphologies of uranium oxide nanocrystals in the solution phase: multi-monomer growth and self-catalysis - Nanoscale Advances (RSC Publishing)
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