0
Yes. Pitchblende contains one gram of radium per seven tons. It is radioactive.
Wiki User
∙ 16y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What property makes it easy to find pitchblende?
The color of pitchblende makes it easy to find it.
Which mineral is radium obtained?
pitchblende was the first, but any good uranium ore will do as it is a daughter element of uranium's decay.
Is Pitchblende an ore of plutonium?
No. Pitchblende is an ore of Uranium. It's been a long time since plutonium occured in nature.
How do you find radium?
in ore of pitchblende
What is a blackish mineral that is a type of uraninite?
pitchblende
What radioactive element is constracted from carnotite and pitchblende?
Uranium
What can make a thermometer dangerous?
If the liquid inside is mercury, contact or digestion of this can be dangerous.
Is being a forensic scientist dangerous?
if u get in contact with chemicals the chemicals can be dangerous
Is promethium dangerous?
As a radioactive material promethium is dangerous by ingestion, inhalation or skin contact.
What weapon which used the main extraction of pitchblende as fuel?
Pitchblende is uranium ore, so any nuclear weapon which used uranium in some form or other (tamper, core, used with plutonium, secondary casing) would need uranium, which is initially obtained from the mining and refining of pitchblende, for example, Little Boy.
How many metric tons of oxygen are combined in a sample of pitchblende that contains 1.8 tons of uranium?
0.242 t of oxygen; but the value is only an approximate because the pitchblende is not only pure UO2.
What kind of ore is urananite?
Uraninite, AKA pitchblende, is an ore of uranium.
