yellowcake
or yel·low cake
[ yel-oh-keyk ]
/ ˈyɛl oʊˌkeɪk /
noun
a processed oxide of uranium, U3O8, extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
Words nearby yellowcake
yellow-yite,
yellowback,
yellowbark,
yellowbelly,
yellowbird,
yellowcake,
yelloweye rockfish,
yellowface,
yellowfin tuna,
yellowfinch,
yellowhammer
Example sentences from the Web for yellowcake
Unlike, say, the yellowcake hype that helped launch a war in Iraq...
New York Times’ Phony Controversy Over Cookbook Ghostwriters |Regina Schrambling |March 25, 2012 |DAILY BEASTSouth Africa mined uranium, and sent 500 tons of yellowcake to Israel from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.