Franklinite Definition

frăngklĭ-nīt
noun
A dark-colored, hard, very heavy, magnetic mineral, zinc manganese iron oxide, (Zn,Fe,Mn)(Fe,Mn)2O4, an ore of zinc and manganese.
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Origin of Franklinite

  • After Franklin , a borough of northern New Jersey

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Franklin +‎ -ite

    From Wiktionary

Franklinite Sentence Examples

  • Other zinc minerals are willemite, Zn 2 SiO 4, hydrozincite or zinc bloom, ZnCO 3.2Zn(OH)2, zincite or red zinc ore, ZnO, and franklinite, 3(Fe,Zn)0 (Fe,Mn) 2 0 3 .

  • Associated with franklinite at Franklin Furnace, and found also at some other localities, is another member of the spinel group, namely, gahnite or zinc-spinel, which is a zinc aluminate, ZnAl 2 O 4, with a little of the zinc replaced by iron and manganese.

  • The chief deposits consist of red oxide, silicate and franklinite, and the average zinc content is 23%.

  • Calcium ferrite, magnesium ferrite and zinc ferrite, ROFe203(R=Ca, Mg, Zn), are obtained by intensely heating mixtures of the oxides; magnesium ferrite occurs in nature as the mineral magnoferrite, and zinc ferrite as franklinite, both forming black octahedra.

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