Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A black, slightly magnetic mineral of zinc, iron, and manganese, ZnFe2O4, that is a valuable source of zinc.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oxid of iron, zinc, and manganese, belonging to the spinel group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An isometric-hexoctahedral
mineral containingiron ,manganese ,oxygen , andzinc .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The franklinite is mixed with coal and heated to a high temperature in a furnace, by which process the zinc is set free and converted into vapor.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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~ Commercially it is often made from franklinite in the following way.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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This state furnished minerals not found anywhere else; for instance the franklinite -- a compound of iron, zinc, and manganese -- named from Dr. Franklin.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
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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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Also FYI, this is the correct way to spell amendment. franklinite wrote on Feb 20, 2009 6: 15 AM:
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Also FYI, this is the correct way to spell amendment. franklinite wrote on Feb 20, 2009 6: 15 AM:
unknown title 2009
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