Earlier name of calamine, n.

An ore of zinc: originally applied, like medieval Latin lapis calaminaris, and the cadmia of Pliny, to both the carbonate ZnCO3, and the hydrous…

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calamine.

A kind of calamine (impure zinc ore) found as an incrustation in copper furnaces.

‘The ancient name of calamine’ (Ure Dict. Arts I. 569); also applied to a sublimate consisting of oxide of zinc (tutty), and to an ore of cobalt.

= cadmia, n.

= calamine, n.

attributive, as in calamine stone n. = lapis calaminaris n. at lapis, n. compounds.

A mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of zinc; = hemimorphite, n. Obsolete.

Kenngott's name (1853) for hydrous silicate of zinc, the crystals of which are hemimorphic. Now generally used in place of earlier names such as cal…