Calamine Definition

kălə-mīn, -mĭn
noun

Hemimorphite.

Webster's New World
A pink powder consisting of zinc oxide mixed with a small amount of ferric oxide, used in lotions and ointments for skin disease.
Webster's New World
An alloy composed of lead, tin, and zinc.
American Heritage Medicine

Smithsonite.

Webster's New World
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Origin of Calamine

  • French from Medieval Latin calamīna alteration of Latin cadmīa cadmium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French calamine, Latin calamina.

    From Wiktionary

Calamine Sentence Examples

  • Rich antimony and calamine mines are worked by a French undertaking, and good marble is quarried by an Italian company.

  • The most important minerals are lead and zinc, obtained in lodes in the forms of galena and calamine respectively.

  • Calamine chiefly occurs in Spain, Silesia and in the United States.

  • Galena and other lead ores are abundant in veins in the limestone, but they are now only worked on a large scale at Mill Close, near Winster; calamine, zinc blende, barytes, calcite and fluor-spar are common.

  • Galena and other lead ores are abundant in veins in the limestone, but they are now only worked on a large scale at Mill Close, near Winster; calamine, zinc, blende, barytes, calcite and fluor-spar are common.

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Words Starting With

CCACAL

Words Ending With

ENEINE

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