blende

[ blend ]

noun

, Mineralogy.

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

blende

/ blɛnd /

noun

1. another name for sphalerite
2. any of several sulphide ores, such as antimony sulphide

Word 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of blende¹

C17: German Blende , from blenden to deceive, blind ; so called because it is easily mistaken for galena

Example Sentences

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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