BLENDE


Meaning of BLENDE in English

/blend/ , n. Mineral.

1. sphalerite; zinc sulfide.

2. any of certain other sulfides.

[ 1675-85; blenden to make blind, deceive; so called because it often looks deceptively like galena ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .