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

It was possibly only furnace calamine, or perhaps blende for it was associated with copper.

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

If a surface is coated with Sidot's blende and held near a piece of radium nitrate, the coated surface begins to glow.

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

In the first are found veins of calcite and quartz from half-an-inch to three inches thick, in which especially in the calcite the gold is visible mixed with iron and copper pyrites, galena and blende.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

In external form these crystals are cubic with inclined hemihedrism, the symmetry being the same as in blende and tetrahedrite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various