sphalerite
IPA: sfɑɫɝaɪt
noun
- (mineralogy) A yellow, brown or black, sometimes red, green white or colorless mineral with cubic crystals, of a chemical formula (Zn,Fe)S, often containing also minor metals, such as cadmium, gallium, germanium and indium.
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Examples of "sphalerite" in Sentences
- It has a sphalerite type crystal structure.
- These minerals form with the zinc mineral sphalerite.
- It is also found in zinc ore (sphalerite) and in coal.
- Sphalerite or zinc sulfide is also common in the region.
- It has a defect sphalerite cubic form of ZnS structure..
- The most exploited zinc ore is sphalerite, a zinc sulfide.
- A method of activating zinc sphalerite mineral is provided.
- Another fragile candidate mineral is sphalerite zinc blende .
- Its crystal structure is cubic, like that for sphalerite and diamond.
- It is often associated with the minerals sphalerite, calcite and fluorite.
- Greenockite occurs with other sulfide minerals such as sphalerite and galena.
- Pabstite can also be found associated with galena, cassiterite and sphalerite.
- This substance occurs as the mineral sphalerite, and is one of the most valued ores of zinc.
- It is now known that it is relatively abundant in some but not all zinc sulphide (sphalerite or ZnS) ore deposits.
- Some important metallic minerals are: hematite (a source of iron), bauxite (a source of aluminum), sphalerite (a source of zinc) and galena (a source of lead).
- Most cadmium used in industry is recovered from sphalerite (zinc sulfide), the principle ore of zinc where cadmium atoms replace some of zinc atoms in the sphalerite.
- Indium is retrieved as a by-product of zinc ores, specifically from the mineral sphalerite, where its abundance can be as high as almost 900 parts per million (ppm) or as low as 1 ppm.
- This is especially important for those valuable minerals which exhibit a brittle to very brittle tenacity, such as cassiterite, sphalerite and the tungsten minerals scheelite and wolframite.
- A set of specimens was exhibited by the Ellenville Zinc Company, consisting of strikingly beautiful crystalline masses of quartz galina, sphalerite and chalcopyrite and specimens of the rare mineral, brookite.
- The Kentucky display contained also zinc ore and sphalerite, lead ore and barite, lead and zinc ore, and fluarite from the mines in Chittenden County; zinc and lead ores and metallic zinc from "the Joplin district of Kentucky;" sphalerite and galena from
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