blende

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The cubic form of zinc sulfide, zinc blende, also crystallizes in an FCC unit cell, as illustrated in Figure 10.61.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

It is fitted with a lens focused upon a bit of Sidot's blende and radium nitrate, and in a dark room shows these beautiful scintillations "like a shower of stars."

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Crystals of blende are of very common occurrence, but owing to twinning and distortion and curvature of the faces, they are often rather complex and difficult to decipher.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various