pechblend

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PECH'BLEND, noun Pitchblend, an ore of uranium; a metallic substance found in masses, or stratified with earths or with other minerals, in Swedish and Saxon mines. It is of a blackish color, inclining to a deep steel gray, and one kind has a mixture of spots of red.
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