Blendes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 157 anagrams from letters in blendes (bdeelns).
1675-85; German; compare Middle High German blenden to make blind, deceive; so called because it often looks deceptively like galena
The gold is also often visible to the naked eye in all the associated minerals, and particularly in the mispickel and blende.
The blende is first roasted in huge furnaces specially built for the purpose.
It is said to require the reduction of about five thousand tons of the blende to produce one pound of radium.
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).
Hemimorphite occurs with other ores of zinc (calamine and blende), forming veins and beds in sedimentary limestones.
It probably is not rich enough for amalgamation, as it contains a superior bulk of iron pyrites, blende, lead and earthy matter.
The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.
Masses of sulphuret of zinc, in the form of blende, were noticed at this locality.
Tetrahedrite, blende, diamond, boracite and pharmacosiderite are substances which crystallize in this class.