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blende

[ blend ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Mineralogy.

blende

/ blɛnd /

Origin of blende¹

1675–85; < German; compare Middle High German blenden to make blind, deceive; so called because it often looks deceptively like galena

Origin of blende¹

C17: German Blende , from blenden to deceive, blind ; so called because it is easily mistaken for galena

It is said to require the reduction of about five thousand tons of the blende to produce one pound of radium.

It is what is called "zinc blende," and consists of zinc sulphide, or zinc and sulphur in combination.

The blende is first roasted in huge furnaces specially built for the purpose.

The Pierrefitte blende contains one part of gallium in four hundred thousand.

Zinc occurs in nature most commonly as sulphide (blende); it also occurs as carbonate (calamine) and silicate (smithsonite).

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