Sphalerite and zinc blende seems to be due to a language difference. Sphalerite is derived from the "Greek" word sphaleros meaning treacherous. Blende is a "German" word meaning blind. Both names that are used interchangeably should be because miners could not "visually" distinguish galena (lead sulfide) </wiki/Lead%28II%29_sulfide> from sphalerite.
On 2/11/2013 12:36 PM, f.tran at pci.uzh.ch wrote: > Hi, > sphalerite and zinc blende are two different names for the same > structure (B3). > It's like rock salt and sodium chloride which are the same (B1). > F. Tran > > -----wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at wrote: ----- > To: "wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at" <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> > From: Sahra Sahraii > Sent by: wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > Date: 02/11/2013 07:09PM > Subject: [Wien] the difference between Zinc blende and Sphalerite > structure > > > > > Dear WIEN2k users > I want to study the InSb and GaSb compounds, InSb has zinc blende > structure but GaSb has Sphalerite > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphalerite> structure, I have made the > zinc blende structure with two positions (000) and (1/4,1/4.1/4) with > a fcc structure, but I don't know how can I make the Sphalerite > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphalerite> structure, Is this structure > the same as the zinc blende structure, if they are same why don't they > have the same name?. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wien mailing list > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien > > > _______________________________________________ > Wien mailing list > Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at > http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/pipermail/wien/attachments/20130211/67b77c3c/attachment.htm>