Min. [f. URA-NIUM + Gr. κον-ία dust, etc.: see -ITE1 2 b.] ‘Sulphate of uranium, found as a lemon-yellow powder’ (Chester).
1868. Dana, Min., 668. Uraconite. Uranochre.
1888. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Uraconite,… a mineral … occurring in exceedingly minute scales, or earthy, on uraninite … at Joachimsthal, Bohemia.
