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yellow cake

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yel⋅low⋅cake

[yel-oh-keyk]
–noun
a processed oxide of uranium, U3O8, extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, esp. fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
Also, yellow cake.


Origin:
1945–50; yellow + cake
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