Crossword-Solution: SCHEELITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scheelite | n. | Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization. |
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| CALCIUM tungstate | 2 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GATAE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Tungsten occurs in nature only in the oxidised state, or as tungstic acid (WO_{3}), either free, as in wolframine, or combined with oxides of manganese and iron, as in wolfram, or with lime, as in scheelite.
Both wolfram and scheelite are of considerable importance as a source of tungstic acid for the manufacture of sodium tungstate, which is used as a mordant and for some other purposes, and as a source of metallic tungsten, which is used in steel-making.
Not only the Paymaster with its tons of mined ore, but the ten claims to the north, all showing good scheelite, which Death Valley Charley had located--he had held them down as well.
Wiley took a piece of scheelite and pounded it in a mortar until it was fine as flour, then dropped it into a test-tube and boiled it over a flame in a solution of hydrochloric and nitric acids.
There was plenty of ore on the dump for the moment but, while he separated it from the waste and shipped it to town, he caught up the falling ground in the drifts and prepared to stope out the scheelite.