blende

See also: Blende

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blɛnd/
  • Homophone: blend

Noun

blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

  1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 310:
      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.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.də/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: blen‧de
  • Rhymes: -ɛndə

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Blende.

Noun

blende f (uncountable)

  1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

blende

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blenden

French

Noun

blende m (plural blendes)

  1. (mineralogy) blende

German

Verb

blende

  1. First-person singular present of blenden.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of blenden.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of blenden.
  4. Imperative singular of blenden.

Italian

Noun

blende f

  1. plural of blenda
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