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zinc blende

noun

Mineralogy.


zinc blende

noun

  1. another name for sphalerite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of zinc blende1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; Ð called also false galena.

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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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Such calciners are used especially in roasting zinc blende into zinc oxide, and in the conversion of copper sulphides into chlorides in the wet extraction process.

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Those lines you see are ultra-violet, made visible to the eye by activation of a radioactive compound whose rays in turn impinge on a zinc blende sheet.

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The most important mineral of zinc is the sulphide, sphalerite or "zinc blende."

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