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 is often associated with blende and pyrites, and with calcite, fluorspar, quartz, barytes, chalybite and pearlspar as gangue minerals; in the upper oxidized parts of the deposits, cerussite and anglesite occur as alteration products.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Those lines you see are ultra-violet, made visible to the eye by activation of a radioactive compound whose rays in turn impinge on a zinc blende sheet.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Harry Bates
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 Henry Smith Williams
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 Noah Webster
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