blende
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blende
- /blɛnd/
Sounds like blend · Rhymes with -ɛnd
Where it comes from
From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).
noun blendes · blind · blinde
- sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc) The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.
