Soft, yellow, radioactive mineral. Carnotite is a hydrous vanadium-ore mineral with a formula of K2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O; the water content actually varies with humidity. Carnotite was named after French mining engineer and chemist Marie-Adolphe Carnot, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Carnotite is a potassium uranium vanadate mineral with chemical formula: K 2 (U O 2) 2 (V O 4) 2 · 3 H 2 O. The water content can vary and small amounts of calcium, barium ...
THE MINERAL CARNOTITE. Chemistry: K 2 (UO 2) 2 (VO 4) 2 - 1-3H 2 O , Hydrated Potassium Uranyl Vanadate. Class: Phosphates; Group: Vanadium Oxysalt Uses: An important ore of ...
car·no·tite (kär n-t t) n. A yellow ore of uranium and radium with composition K(UO 2) 2 (VO 4) 2 ·3H 2 O. [French, after Marie Adolphe Carnot (died 1920), French mining ...
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