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luish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. False galena. See Blende.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

eceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. -- False galena. See Blende. -- False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody. -- False keel (Naut.), the timber below the…

Pertaining to, or containing, galena.

Galena; lead ore.

al. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.

atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a Ant: polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.

aracters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.

A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.

Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a).