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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A red to yellow-orange zinc ore, ZnO.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
zinkite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also
red zinc ore , andred oxide of zinc .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A yellow, orange or dark-red mineral form of
zinc oxide , often also containing small amounts of manganese, with achemical formula (Zn ,Mn 2+)O , an important ore of zinc.
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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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