hematite

IPA: hˈɛmʌtaɪt

Examples of "hematite" in Sentences

Usually when an archaeologist reports "hematite," he is referring to the non-earthy forms.
France, called at the present day hematite, which is red in colour and is much employed for burnishing gold.
The key to determining if ultra violet light or oxygen formed the hematite is the crystalline structure of the hematite itself.
The compass is useless on these hills, as they are composed of micaceous iron ore, with brown hematite, which is very magnetic.
A soft, reddish mineral called hematite was mixed with the fat of an animal, such as a deer, to make a paintlike paste, Burge said.
Fully nine-tenths of the iron production of the world comes from the so-called hematite ores, meaning ores in which hematite is the dominant mineral, though most of them contain other iron minerals in smaller quantities.
But the two things they have in common is they're landing in areas where we believe just based on the geological formations appear to have either been lake beds or could have sustained hematite, which is commonly found on earth-bound, you know, bottoms of lake beds, sediment and so forth.