blende

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Definition

noun an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

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. — Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
Þat oþer stif mon in study stod a gret whyle; So agreued for greme he gryed with-inne, [F] Alle þe blode of his brest blende in his face, 2372 Þat al he schrank for schome, þat þe schalk talked. — Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.), Unknown
He informed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about aëriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schorl; about gypsum and trap; about talc and calc; about blende and horn-blende; about mica-slate and pudding-stone; about cyanite and lepidolite; about hematite and tremolite; about antimony and calcedony; about manganese and whatever you please. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe

zinc blende, sphalerite

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