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  2. Sphalerite - Wikipedia

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    Sphalerite is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula (Zn, Fe)S. [5] It is the most important ore of zinc . Sphalerite is found in a variety of deposit types, but it is primarily in sedimentary exhalative , Mississippi-Valley type , and volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits.

  3. Albanian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known mention of Albanian writings comes from a French Catholic church document from 1332. [10] [11] Written either by archbishop Guillaume Adam or the monk Brocardus Monacus the report notes that Licet Albanenses aliam omnino linguam a latina habeant et diversam, tamen litteram latinam habent in usu et in omnibus suis libris ("Though the Albanians have a language entirely their ...

  4. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.

  5. File:Sphalerite (mine near Carthage, Tennessee, USA) 1 ...

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    Sphalerite is also distinctive in being moderately heavy for its size and having six different planes of cleavage. Sphalerite is the most important zinc ore mineral. Zinc produced from sphalerite is used for many purposes, including mixing with copper to produce brass, rust protection of iron & steel, and for making modern American pennies ...

  6. Abetare - Wikipedia

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    The first alphabet book of the Albanian language titled "The very brief and useful Albanian Evetar" was written in 1844 by prominent author of the National Revival period Naum Veqilharxhi. [1] Since that time, more than 150 revised iterations of the Abetare have been printed in Albania and abroad.

  7. Abjad - Wikipedia

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    The name abjad is based on the Arabic alphabet's first (in its original order) four letters — corresponding to a, b, j, and d — to replace the more common terms "consonantary" and "consonantal alphabet" in describing the family of scripts classified as "West Semitic".

  8. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The first known recorded text in the Arabic alphabet is known as the Zabad inscription, composed in 512. It is a trilingual dedication in Greek, Syriac and Arabic found at the village of Zabad in northwestern Syria. The version of the Arabic alphabet used includes only 21 letters, of which only 15 are different, being used to note 28 phonemes:

  9. Zaman - Wikipedia

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    Khaliquzzaman (disambiguation), meaning courteous of the era; Khasruzzaman (disambiguation), meaning Chosroes of the era; Nuruzzaman (disambiguation), meaning light of the era; Qamar al-Zaman (disambiguation), meaning moon of the era; Saifuzzaman (disambiguation), meaning sword of the era; Shahiduzzaman (disambiguation), meaning witness of the era