uraniten.

1790 Crit. Rev. Jan. 112 The most interesting discovery is undoubtedly the new semi-metal which M. Klaproth of Berlin has just discovered in the pechblende and the green glimmer of Saxony... Because it is distinguished from every other, M. Klaproth has called it uranite.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 301 Uranite..is soluble in the nitrous acid.

1800 J. Parkinson Chem. Pocket-bk. 117 Uranite, or the metal of Uranochre,..is of a dark steel or iron grey.

1793 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. (ed. 2) 225 Mr Klaproth, a celebrated chemist at Berlin, has lately discovered a new metal, to which he gives the name of Uranium; and he distinguishes its various mineral forms by the generic term of Uranite.

1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. lxix. 385 A collection of tin ore, cobalt, uranite, &c. from Saxony.

1814 A. Aikin Man. Mineral. 69 Uranite, Uran glimmer..occurs crystallized in cubes and rectangular tables.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxiii. 203 Uranium is a metal which occurs but sparingly in nature, existing combined in two somewhat rare minerals, pitchblende and uranite.

1922 Amer. Mineralogist 7 162 In spite of the incomplete data, it seems evident that this mineral is a new member of the uranite group.

1944 Science 18 Feb. 136/1 The analysis of a pegmatite in Manitoba containing uranite, monozite [read monazite] and mica leads to three independent determinations of age ranging from 1,600 to 1,900 millions of years.

2010 C. M. Aelion in C. M. Aelion et al. Environmental Isotopes Bioremediation & Biodegradation xi. 353 Boltwood used the idea that lead was the end product of the decay of uranium to make age determinations on uranite using U/Pb ratios.