blende

[ blend ]

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nounMineralogy.

sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
any of certain other sulfides.

Origin of blende

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

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How to use blende in a sentence

It is said to require the reduction of about five thousand tons of the blende to produce one pound of radium.
How to Succeed as an Inventor | Goodwin B. Smith
It is what is called "zinc blende," and consists of zinc sulphide, or zinc and sulphur in combination.
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. Corbin
The blende is first roasted in huge furnaces specially built for the purpose.
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. Corbin
The Pierrefitte blende contains one part of gallium in four hundred thousand.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley
Zinc occurs in nature most commonly as sulphide (blende); it also occurs as carbonate (calamine) and silicate (smithsonite).
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

British Dictionary definitions for blende

blende

/ (blɛnd) /

noun

another name for sphalerite
any of several sulphide ores, such as antimony sulphide

Origin of blende

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

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