blende
noun/blɛnd/
Etymology From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).
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Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
- The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 310:
- Derived terms
- blendous, hornblende, ruby blende, zincblende