Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless, vitreous to resinous, often fluorescent mineral, Zn2SiO4, a minor ore of zinc.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral of resinous luster and yellowish-green or flesh-red color, a native silicate of zinc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A rare
mineral , zinc silicate,Zn 2Si O 4, that is a minorore ofzinc .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fellowship at Princeton University for postdoctoral work, at which time he began a study of photoconductivity in willemite crystals.
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Sphalerite or blende (zinc sulfide), the original zinc ore, smithsonite, hydrozincite, willemite.
13. Glaze oxides 1993
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Zincite (zinc oxide) and willemite (zinc silicate) are the important minerals in the deposits of Franklin Furnace, New Jersey.
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They consist of willemite and zincite, together with large amounts of franklinite (an iron-manganese oxide) and silicates, in a pre-Cambrian white crystalline limestone near its contact with a coarse-grained granite-gneiss.
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Why, only those rays invisible to the human eye, but which make this piece of willemite glow -- the ultraviolet rays. "
The Poisoned Pen 1908
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Why, only those rays invisible to the human eye, but which make this piece of willemite glow -- the ultra-violet rays. "
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