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hematite
/ˈhɛməˌtaɪt/
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What does hematite mean?
noun
- An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe₂O₃: iron(III) oxide.
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It was a pretty and interesting place, where the presence of rich hematite iron ore has from time immemorial induced a settlement of smelters.
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.
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Examine magnetite, hematite, limonite, siderite, pig-iron, wrought-iron, steel.
In a stratum of red hematite clay, underneath a solid basaltic crag of some sixty feet or more in thickness, I found the charred branches of trees--the remains of some forest that had, at some inconceivably remote period, been destroyed by a vast out-belching flow of molten lava from a deep-seated volcanic store underneath.
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.