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{ Fahl"erz (?), Fahl"band (?), }
n. [G. fahlerz; fahl dun-colored,
fallow + erz ore.] (Min.) Same as
Tetrahedrite.


Fah"lun*ite (fä"lŭn*īt),
n. [From Fahlun, a place in Sweden.]
(Min.) A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the
alteration of iolite.


[1913 Webster]


Fah"ren*heit (?) a. [G.]
Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's
thermometric scale.
-- n. The Fahrenheit
thermometer or scale.


&fist; The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the
freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale,
and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in
the United States and in England.


||Fa`ï*ence" (?), n. [F., fr.
Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.]
Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in
color.


Fail (fāl) v.


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