zinc blende

1. 1.

   an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form

   Synonymsblendesphalerite

   Broadermineral

Questions about zinc blende

What does zinc blende mean?

zinc blende means "an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form".

What is another word for zinc blende?

Close synonyms include blende, sphalerite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is zinc blende a common word?

zinc blende is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.