Definitions for blende

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Spelling: [blend]
IPA: /blɛnd/

Blende is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in blende (bdeeln).

Definitions for blende

noun

  1. sphalerite; zinc sulfide.
  2. any of certain other sulfides.

Origin of blende

1675-85; German; compare Middle High German blenden to make blind, deceive; so called because it often looks deceptively like galena

Examples for blende

It is said to require the reduction of about five thousand tons of the blende to produce one pound of radium.

The blende is first roasted in huge furnaces specially built for the purpose.

Tetrahedrite, blende, diamond, boracite and pharmacosiderite are substances which crystallize in this class.

In the Missouri region, on the other hand, sphalerite and blende are the typical ores.

Zinc is smelted in England, likewise from blende (sulphuret of zinc).

The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.

Hemimorphite occurs with other ores of zinc (calamine and blende), forming veins and beds in sedimentary limestones.

The gold is also often visible to the naked eye in all the associated minerals, and particularly in the mispickel and blende.

It probably is not rich enough for amalgamation, as it contains a superior bulk of iron pyrites, blende, lead and earthy matter.

Masses of sulphuret of zinc, in the form of blende, were noticed at this locality.

Word Value for blende
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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