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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A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; Ð called also false galena.
From Project Gutenberg
There it forms a large deposit, in a granitic vein running through gneiss, and is accompanied by quartz, siderite, galena, blende, chalcopyrite, &c.
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This ore is often found mixed with iron or copper pyrites, and sometimes with blende.
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The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.
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Magnetic pyrites, copper pyrites, zinc blende and arsenical pyrites are other and less important examples, the last constituting the gold ore formerly worked in Silesia.
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