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(mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc) quotations examples
The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 310