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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A red to yellow-orange zinc ore, ZnO.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See zinkite.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mineralogy A yellow, orange or dark-red mineral form of zinc oxide, often also containing small amounts of manganese, with a chemical formula (Zn,Mn2+)O, an important ore of zinc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.

Examples

  • “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.”

    The Economic Aspect of Geology

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