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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
blende
 
PRONUNCIATION:  blnd
NOUN:1. Any of various shiny minerals composed chiefly of metallic sulfides. 2. See sphalerite.
ETYMOLOGY:German, from blenden, to deceive (because it resembles lead ore), from Middle High German blenden, from Old High German blentan, to blind, deceive. See bhel-1 in Appendix I.
 
 
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