Crossword-Solution: BLACKBAND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blackband | n. | An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore. |
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| type of iron ore | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Ralph Moore, in his "Papers on the Blackband Ironstones" (Glasgow, 1861), observes:--"Strange to say, he was leaving behind him, almost as the roof of one of the seams of coal which he worked, a valuable blackband ironstone, upon which Kinneil Iron Works are now founded.
Wanley, it is to be feared, lags far behind the times--painfully so, when one knows for a certainty that the valley upon which it looks conceals treasures of coal, of ironstone--blackband, to be technical--and of fireclay.
SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA The Submarine Murderers at Work--Germany's Blackband Warning--No Chance for Life--The Ship Unarmed and Without Munitions--The President's Note--Germany's Lying Denials--Coroner's Inquest Charges Kaiser with Wilful Murder--"Remember the Lusitania" One of America's Big Reasons for Declaring War CHAPTER XVII.
The iron trade was in its infancy, and those engaged in it lacked the resources for the acquisition of wealth that were evolved from the discovery of blackband mineral deposits by Mushet, the application of the hot blast by Neilson, and the introduction of other more economical modes of working.
The discovery of the value of blackband ironstone, till then regarded as useless "wild coal," by David Mushet (1772-1847), and Neilson's invention of the hot-air blast threw the control of the Scottish iron trade into the hands of Glasgow ironmasters, although the furnaces themselves were mostly erected in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire.