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
This ore is often found mixed with iron or copper pyrites, and sometimes with blende.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
In external form these crystals are cubic with inclined hemihedrism, the symmetry being the same as in blende and tetrahedrite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
It is often associated with blende and pyrites, and with calcite, fluorspar, quartz, barytes, chalybite and pearlspar as gangue minerals; in the upper oxidized parts of the deposits, cerussite and anglesite occur as alteration products.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Any spar adhering to the ore, renders it refractory; blende and pyrites have the same effect.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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