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yellow cake

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Tuumaenergia ja kiirguskaitse terminibaas

ID 584609 Last modified 15.01.2025
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Domain Nuclear Technology & Nuclear Industrynuclear energy
  • uraanimaagi töötlemise lõppsaadus, mille põhiline komponent on U3O8
  • Yellow cake is the final product of the milling of uranium ore
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    • it contains about 80 % of uranium oxide and is usually represented by the formula U3O8. The yellow cake produced by most modern mills is actually brown or black, not yellow; the name comes from the colour and texture of the concentrates produced by early mining operations due to impurities from ammonium diuranate (NH4)2U2O7.

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