yellowcake

or yel·low cake

[ yel-oh-keyk ]

noun

1. a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellowcake¹

First recorded in 1945–50; yellow + cake

Example Sentences

Unlike, say, the yellowcake hype that helped launch a war in Iraq...

From The Daily Beast

South Africa mined uranium, and sent 500 tons of yellowcake to Israel from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

From The Daily Beast