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zinc in varying proportions, (Fe, Zn, Mn) "(Fe, Mn) 2"'O4. It occurs as large octahedral crystals often with rounded edges, and as granular masses. The See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is iron-See also:

black and the lustre metallic; hardness 6, specific gravity 5.2. It thus resembles See also:

MAGNETITE

magnetite in See also:

EXTERNAL

external characters, but is readily distinguished from this by the fact that it is only slightly magnetic. It is found in consider-able amount, associated with zinc minerals (See also:

ZINCITE

zincite and See also:

WILLEMITE

willemite) in crystalline See also:

LIMESTONE

limestone, at See also:

Franklin See also:

FURNACE

Furnace, New See also:

Jersey, where it is See also:

MINED

mined as an ore of zinc (containing 5 to 20% of the See also:

metal); after the extraction of the zinc, the See also:

RESIDUE (through the French, from the Lat. residuum, a remainder, from residere, to remain)

residue is used in the manufacture of spiegeleisen (the See also:

MINERAL

mineral containing 15 to 20% of manganese oxides). 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, ZnAl2O4, with a little of the zinc replaced by iron and manganese. See also:

FRANK, JAKOB (1726-1791)

FRANK-See also:

MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE (liberum maritagium), in real See also:

PROPERTY

property See also:

law, a See also:

SPECIES

species of See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate tail, now obsolete. When a See also:

man was seized of See also:

LAND

land in See also:

fee See also:

SIMPLE

simple, and gave it to a daughter on marriage, the daughter and her See also:

HUSBAND

husband were termed the donees in frank-marriage, because they held the land granted to them and the heirs of their two bodies See also:

FREE

free from all manner of service, except fealty, to the donor-or his heirs until the See also:

FOURTH

fourth degree of See also:

con-sanguinity from the donor was passed. This right of a freeholder so to give away his land at will was first recognized in the reign of See also:

Henry II., and became up to the reign of See also:

Elizabeth the most usual See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

settlement.

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