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Yellowcake smuggling item — UPSC Prelims PYQ 1995

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Yellow cake’, an item of smuggling across borders is

  1. crude heroin
  2. crude cocaine
  3. uranium oxide
  4. unrefined gold

Explanation

Option (c) is correct
  • Yellowcake is a concentrated powder form of uranium oxide (U₃O₈), used in nuclear fuel production.
Answer: (c) Uranium Oxide