calamine
IPA: kˈæɫʌmaɪn
noun
- Synonym of smithsonite, a pink form of zinc oxide (mainly zinc carbonate ZnCO₃) formed as a byproduct of zinc sublimation, now used in skin lotions.
- (mineralogy) Synonym of hemimorphite, an orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing zinc.
verb
- (transitive) To coat or treat with calamine.
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Examples of "calamine" in Sentences
- For details of this see calamine brass.
- Calamine commonly refers to calamine lotion.
- Calamine is a historic name for an ore of zinc.
- He isolated zinc in 1746 by heating calamine and carbon.
- Flare ups can be treated with calamine lotion or lidocaine.
- Calamine lotion has been shown to be effective for itching.
- In mineralogy calamine is no longer considered a valid term.
- Cadmea is also an ancient name for calamine or zinc carbonate.
- The unincorporated community of Calamine is located in the town.
- I can see she’s being bathed in calamine and baking soda there …
- However, a decade later, the company obstructed the owners from mining calamine.
- F.S. Beudant in 1832 restricted the name calamine to the hydrous silicate and proposed the name
- · applying lotions such as calamine that are soothing and prevent the skin from becoming too dry
- The real inflation story is here in the U.S. For us, China's inflation is the canary in the calamine.
- Outside the tent, there is a "help yourself" first-aid station with bandages, antacid, witch hazel, calamine lotion and vitamins.
- I got a terrible sunburn in Damascus once, and because I did not know the Arabic word for calamine, I treated my burn with a substance that I now believe was hummus.
- The remaining part amounting to i* confifts of fomc impurities, which have been picked out or ivalhcd away, and of fome portion of the me - tallic parts of the calamine, which is inflamed jind driven off during calcination.
- The only real way to deal with such ulcers is to wrap the affected area in what's known as Unna Boots -- gauze bandages soaked in either zinc oxide paste, or a blend of zinc oxide paste and calamine lotion; the later is what I have.
- The name calamine (G.rman, _G.lmei_), from _lapis calaminaris_, a Latin corruption of cadmia ([G.eek: kadmia]), the old name for zinc ores in general (G. Agricola in 1546 derived it from the Latin _calamus_, a reed), was early used indiscriminately for the carbonate and the hydrous silicate of zinc, and even now both species are included by miners under the same term.