yellowcake

or 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, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.

Origin of yellowcake

First recorded in 1945–50; yellow + cake

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How to use yellowcake in a sentence

He quipped that, “Rouhani thinks he can have his yellow cake and eat it too.”
Netanyahu’s Iran Soliloquy at the U.N. | Maysoon Zayid | October 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
He is gonna kill us all and then eat yellow cake to celebrate.
Netanyahu’s Iran Soliloquy at the U.N. | Maysoon Zayid | October 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
A drawer was opened, and almost instantly in his ready hands was the largest segment of yellow cake he had ever beheld.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
Richard found Helen talking to her brother-in-law, over two dishes of yellow cake and smooth bread and butter.
The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf
Refreshments might consist of yellow cake, lemonade, and yellow candy.
Bright Ideas for Entertaining | Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott

A large yellow cake could be used for a centrepiece, banked with yellow flowers; use brass candlesticks with yellow candles.
Bright Ideas for Entertaining | Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott

British Dictionary definitions for yellow cake

yellow cake

noun

informal semirefined uranium ore

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