Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

curite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cu-rite
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The color is lighter than that of curite."
"The present note relates to the behaviour of uranium minerals such as uraninite, curite, and uranophane in high-tension separators."
"1982, 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."

Etymology

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.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Curie

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

curites (plural)

Questions

What does curite mean?: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.
Where does curite come from?: 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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