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Meaning of "scheelite" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCHEELITE

From German Scheelit, named after Karl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–86), Swedish chemist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SCHEELITE

scheelite  [ˈʃiːlaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCHEELITE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Scheelite is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SCHEELITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

scheelite

Scheelite

Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4. It is an important ore of tungsten. Well-formed crystals are sought by collectors and are occasionally fashioned into gemstones when suitably free of flaws. Scheelite has been synthesized via the Czochralski process; the material produced may be used to imitate diamond, as a scintillator, or as a solid state lasing medium.

Definition of scheelite in the English dictionary

The definition of scheelite in the dictionary is a white, brownish, or greenish mineral, usually fluorescent, consisting of calcium tungstate in tetragonal crystalline form with some tungsten often replaced by molybdenum: occurs principally in contact metamorphic rocks and quartz veins, and is an important source of tungsten and purified calcium tungstate. Formula: CaWO4.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCHEELITE


daylight
ˈdeɪˌlaɪt
delight
dɪˈlaɪt
flashlight
ˈflæʃˌlaɪt
flight
flaɪt
highlight
ˈhaɪˌlaɪt
light
laɪt
lite
laɪt
marlite
ˈmɑːlaɪt
moonlight
ˈmuːnˌlaɪt
pearlite
ˈpɜːlaɪt
Peelite
ˈpiːlaɪt
pelite
ˈpiːlaɪt
perlite
ˈpɜːlaɪt
polite
pəˈlaɪt
satellite
ˈsætəˌlaɪt
slight
slaɪt
spotlight
ˈspɒtˌlaɪt
sunlight
ˈsʌnlaɪt
thulite
ˈθjuːlaɪt
twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCHEELITE

schechita
schechitah
schecklaton
schedular
schedule
scheduled
scheduled castes
scheduled territories
scheduler
Scheele
schefflera
Scheherazade
Schelde
Scheldt
Schelling
Schellingian
schellum
schelm
schema
schemata

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCHEELITE

antielite
Bakelite
British Israelite
Carmelite
cellulite
Dyothelite
elite
Ishmaelite
Israelite
Jezreelite
liberal elite
Monothelite
nephelite
nonelite
ottrelite
power elite
Pre-Raphaelite
sapropelite
Stellite
superelite

Synonyms and antonyms of scheelite in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «scheelite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCHEELITE

Find out the translation of scheelite to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of scheelite from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scheelite» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

白钨矿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

scheelita
570 millions of speakers

English

scheelite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Scheelite
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

scheelite
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шеелит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

scheelita
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

scheelite
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

scheelite
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Scheelite
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Scheelit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

灰重石
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회중석
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Scheelite
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

scheelite
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

scheelite
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्केलइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şelit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scheelite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

scheelit
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шеелит
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scheelite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχεελίτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

scheelite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

scheelit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

schee
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scheelite

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCHEELITE»

The term «scheelite» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.480 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCHEELITE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «scheelite» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «scheelite» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scheelite

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCHEELITE»

Discover the use of scheelite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scheelite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Genetic types of scheelite mineralisation and maximum gold concentrations in scheelite-bearing rocks or/and quartz veins (after Mikulski 2000) against geological background of Hercynian veins cuts the Klodzko-Ztoty Stok massif and its ...
A. Piestrzynski, 2001
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Modern Luminescence Spectroscopy of Minerals and Materials
Reabsorption lines of molecular oxygen and water in laser-induced time- resolved luminescence spectra of sedimentary apatite (francolite) 8.0x10 7 6.0 x10' I 4,0x10 2,0x10 4.1.2 Scheelite CaW04 Scheelite is a calcium tungstate, CaWO4, with ...
Michael Gaft, Renata Reisfeld, Gerard Panczer, 2005
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Tables of Gemstone Identification
Scheelite synthetic Baddeleyite Crocoite Cuprite Simpsonite Scheelite Scheelite synthetic Crocoite Cuprite Simpsonite Scheelite Scheelite synthetic Crocoite Cuprite Simpsonite Scheelite Scheelite synthetic Crocoite Cuprite Simpsonite ...
Roger Dedeyne, Ivo Quintens, 2007
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The Timing and Location of Major Ore Deposits in an Evolving ...
centimetre-thick quartz veinlets with scheelite, arsenopyrite, cassiterite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. 1n granite, cassiterite predominates over scheelite in unzoned veinlets, whereas in amphibolite, scheelite strongly predominates in zoned veinlets.
Derek John Blundell, Franz Neubauer, Albrecht Quadt, 2002
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Proceedings of the 29th International Geological Congress: ...
Moreover, solubility of scheelite decreases with an increasing N2 component in complex C-H-O-N fluids. For scheelite deposited in calc-silicate gneisses of Montagne Noire, France Gilbert et al. [30] rejected a possibility that scheelite ...
Tadao Nishiyama, Fujio Kumon, Y. Watanabe, 1994
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Bulletin
A specimen sent by Mr. Temney to the United States Geological Survey shows beautifully white pieces of scheelite, an inch in diameter, buried in quartz. On the west side of the Nightingale Range, opposite the north end of the claims on the ...
‎1922
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Tungsten Minerals and Deposits
Continuing this computation, it was determined that ore that looked to be three- fourths (by volume) of "apparent" scheelite, as judged by the man sorting it, contains 58 per cent of WOa ; that one-half " apparent " scheelite contains 46 per cent of ...
Frank Lee Hess, 1917
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Scheelite (CaWO4) was discovered in Cattle Canyon, in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness Study Area, in the 1950's and has been worked intermittently since then, mostly by handpicking the high-grade pieces of rock from talus and alluvium.
‎1984
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
White to very pale yellowish green scheelite occurs as irregular patches and blebs on the margins of and within huebnerite crystals, and as small veinlets or fracture fillings a fraction of a millimeter wide in huebnerite (figs. 17, 18). Locally ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1984
10
Quartz: Deposits, Mineralogy and Analytics: Deposits, ...
15.6 Scanning electron microscope CL images of pseudomorphs of scheelite after wolframite and of late scheelite overgrowth enclosed in quartz, images were taken using a Jeol JSM 6400 with a Mini CL detector operated at 20 kV and 600 ...
Jens Götze, Robert Möckel, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCHEELITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scheelite is used in the context of the following news items.
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State Route 839 reopened after flash flooding
The road, also known as Scheelite Mine Road, runs south of U.S. 50 between the Sand Mound Recreation Area and the Rawhide Mine. State officials closed the ... «Reno Gazette Journal, Jul 15»
2
Vital Metals slashes capital costs at Watershed Tungsten Project
Vital continues to review the DFS for further opportunities to enhance the Project and believes that with scheelite mineralisation open at depth and along strike ... «Proactive Investors USA & Canada, Jun 15»
3
Australia riding to the rescue of tungsten
King Island Scheelite (ASX:KIS) owns the Dolphin project located on King Island, part of the state of Tasmanian. This deposit was mined between 1917 and ... «InvestorIntel, Jun 15»
4
100 year old tungsten mine on King Island may reopen after two …
In its golden era of the 1940s and 1970s the scheelite mine in King Island's south-east employed over 500 people and was a major boon for the island's ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
5
Glowing progress for scheelite project
King Island Scheelite chairman Johann Jacobs is looking forward to a very busy period as the company moves to re-open its high-grade tungsten mine on a ... «MiningNews.net, May 15»
6
JURUPA VALLEY: Man accused of theft from Pedley Elementary
On Monday, deputies arrested Gutierrez without incident at his home in the 6000 block of Scheelite Street -- about a block away from the school. Anyone with ... «Press-Enterprise, Apr 15»
7
Larry Wissbeck 1939-2014
Wissbeck was raised in central Nevada, in the now-abandoned mining camp of Nevada Scheelite and Fallon. He recalled watching a 1950s atomic test flash ... «Reno News & Review, Jul 14»
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Man Accused of Stealing Copper from Murrieta Construction Site …
After identifying Frederick as the owner of the vehicle, a search warrant was served at his Scheelite Street residence, where investigators recovered the property ... «Patch.com, Jul 14»
9
King Island Scheelite to raise $2 million for tungsten project, Tasmania
King Island Scheelite (ASX:KIS) has initiated a 1 for 8 rights issue priced at ... KIS is focused on redeveloping the original scheelite mine on King Island, with the ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Jul 14»
10
Almonty Industries Inc. announces it has entered into a binding …
Upon completion of the transaction Almonty will be the only listed company on the TSX/TSX-V with two operating tungsten mines, producing both scheelite and ... «Canada NewsWire, Jun 14»

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