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blende

[ blend ]

noun

Mineralogy.
  1. sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
  2. any of certain other sulfides.


blende

/ ɛԻ /

noun

  1. another name for sphalerite
  2. any of several sulphide ores, such as antimony sulphide
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blende1

1675–85; < German; compare Middle High German blenden to make blind, deceive; so called because it often looks deceptively like galena
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blende1

C17: German Blende , from blenden to deceive, blind ; so called because it is easily mistaken for galena
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A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; Ð called also false galena.

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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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