Crossword-Solution: HEMATITE
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| Hematite | n. | An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown. |
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| Alabama state mineral | 1 answer |
| Haematite | 1 answer |
| Main ore of iron | 1 answer |
| Mineral found on Mars in 1998 that suggests the former presence of water | 1 answer |
| RED iron ore | 1 answer |
| red, grey, or black mineral | 1 answer |
| red ore | 2 answers |
| BLOODSTONE | 4 answers |
| iron ore | 11 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HEMATITE (5)
The Carnstock Iron Works line was blocked all day upon the 3rd of June by sixteen truckloads of hematite.
The process in detail consists in freeing the bath of melted pig-iron from excess of carbon by adding broken lumps of pure hematite or magnetite iron ore.
From a Westphalian cave, Schaafhausen took some dark yellow ochre; at Castern (Staffordshire), a bit of this same calcareous substance, worn with long service, was picked tip; in Cantire (Argyleshire), a piece of red hematite, which had evidently been brought from Westmoreland or Lancashire; and lastly, in Kent’s Hole was found some peroxide of manganese.
Many of the bones found in the various caves of Mentone were colored with red hematite.7 As this was only the case with the bones of adults, those of children retaining their natural whiteness, it evidently had some special significance.
Meanwhile there is a gradual wasting away of the pyrites or positive pole, its sulphur being oxidised to sulphuric acid and its iron to sesquioxide of iron, or hematite, a substance very generally associated with gold nuggets.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2010–2013).