blende
Americannoun
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sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
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any of certain other sulfides.
noun
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another name for sphalerite
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any of several sulphide ores, such as antimony sulphide
Etymology
Origin of blende
1675–85; < German; compare Middle High German blenden to make blind, deceive; so called because it often looks deceptively like galena
Example Sentences
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The cubic form of zinc sulfide, zinc blende, also crystallizes in an FCC unit cell, as illustrated in Figure 10.61.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
In the United States the best known mines are in the Galena-Joplin District, in Missouri and Kansas, which produce about two-thirds of the home product—mainly from the ore blende, a sulphide.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
At the original locality, Wheal Boys in the parish of Endellion in Cornwall, it was found associated with jamesonite, blende and chalybite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
In the Cwnystwyth mines in Cornwall new and valuable deposits of ore and blende were located.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
It is fitted with a lens focused upon a bit of Sidot's blende and radium nitrate, and in a dark room shows these beautiful scintillations "like a shower of stars."
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
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