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blende

/blend/US // blɛnd //UK // (blɛnd) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Mineralogy.

    • : sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
    • : any of certain other sulfides.

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Examples

  • It is said to require the reduction of about five thousand tons of the blende to produce one pound of radium.

  • It is what is called "zinc blende," and consists of zinc sulphide, or zinc and sulphur in combination.

  • The blende is first roasted in huge furnaces specially built for the purpose.

  • The Pierrefitte blende contains one part of gallium in four hundred thousand.

  • Zinc occurs in nature most commonly as sulphide (blende); it also occurs as carbonate (calamine) and silicate (smithsonite).