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Wiktionary

  1. n. chiefly UK alternative spelling of hematite.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as hematite.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form

Examples

  • “Alternatively, the fire screen is created in haematite (black steel) plate, possessing the attribute of projecting shadow, even when the fire is extinguished or the light source removed; running on its shadow.”

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  • “This substance, also called haematite, has some practical use as an adhesive.”

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  • “We saw several miners, who told us that they got the ore (known as haematite, or iron oxide) at a depth of from 90 to 100 yards, working by candle-light, and that they received about 2s. 6d. per ton as the product of their labour.”

    From John O'Groats to Land's End

  • “We now come to large masses of haematite, which is often ferruginous: there is conglomerate too, many quartz pebbles being intermixed.”

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death

  • “Small discs of jade, obsidian or haematite were then cemented into the holes: the plant adhesive was so powerful that many burials found by archaeologists today still have the inlays firmly in place.”

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  • “Great masses of iron haematite cropped up above the surfaces in these forests.”

    How I Found Livingstone

  • “Yellow haematite, which bears not the smallest resemblance either in colour or weight to the metal, is employed near Kolobeng for the production of iron.”

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

  • ““Box No. 27,” Iron from Mugnah, proved to be haematite (which is magnetic), with some red-brown oxide of iron and quartz.”

    The Land of Midian

  • “The ores in question have various local names: brown haematite (xanthosiderite), limonite, pea ore, conglomerate ore, minette (iron ooliths), sea ore, bog ore, stilpnosiderite, yellow clay ironstone, yellow ochre.”

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  • “A finely granulated admixture of corundum (oxide of aluminium) and either magnetite or haematite

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