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
This ore is often found mixed with iron or copper pyrites, and sometimes with blende.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Regular intergrowths of crystals of totally different substances such as staurolite with cyanite, rutile with haematite, blende with chalcopyrite, calcite with sodium nitrate, are not uncommon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
Any spar adhering to the ore, renders it refractory; blende and pyrites have the same effect.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The most important mineral of zinc is the sulphide, sphalerite or "zinc blende."
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
