calamine
a pink, water-insoluble powder consisting of zinc oxide and about 0.5 percent ferric oxide, used in ointments, lotions, or the like, for the treatment of inflammatory conditions of the skin.
Mineralogy. hemimorphite.
Chiefly British. smithsonite.
Origin of calamine
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How to use calamine in a sentence
Smithsonite is a carbonate much resembling, and often found with, calamine.
The A B C of Mining | Charles A. BrambleZinc occurs in nature most commonly as sulphide (blende); it also occurs as carbonate (calamine) and silicate (smithsonite).
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerIn this condition it presents more surface to the action of zinc or calamine, and combines with it more readily.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreIt is accompanied by zinc ore (calamine), especially in the upper parts of the mountain.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreThe calamine-and-zinc oxide lotion used in acute eczema is also often extremely valuable.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman Stelwagon
British Dictionary definitions for calamine
/ (ˈkæləˌmaɪn) /
a pink powder consisting of zinc oxide and ferric oxide, (iron(III) oxide), used medicinally in the form of soothing lotions or ointments
US another name for smithsonite, hemimorphite
Origin of calamine
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