chernobylite

{{Short description|Technogenic mineral}}

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Chernobylite is a technogenic compound, a crystalline zirconium silicate with a high (up to 10%) content of uranium as a solid solution.

It was discovered in the corium produced in the Chernobyl disaster, a lava-like glassy material formed in the nuclear meltdown of reactor core 4.{{cite book|author1=United States. Joint Publications Research Service|author2=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service|title=USSR report: Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y6c9AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 July 2012|year=1991|publisher=Joint Publications Research Service.}}{{cite book|author=Richard Francis Mould|title=Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O36UC03ODtcC&pg=PA128|accessdate=20 July 2012|date=1 May 2000|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-7503-0670-6|pages=128–}}Valeriy Soyfer "Chernobylite: Technogenic Mineral", Khimiya i Zhizn', No 11, Nov. 1990, p. 12, in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514120845/http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA360559 Science & Technology USSR: Chemistry]. JPRS Report. 27 March 1991. p. 29.

Chernobylite is highly radioactive due to its high uranium content and contamination by fission products.