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

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

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

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