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 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
Considerable quantities of blende were also met with, and strong indications of the existence of copper are furnished.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
A pure white blende from Franklin in New Jersey is known as cleiophane; snow-white crystals are also found at Nordmark in Vermland, Sweden.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
If a surface is coated with Sidot's blende and held near a piece of radium nitrate, the coated surface begins to glow.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
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