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Powder used in lotions
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calamine
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
zinc carbonate; zinc silicate, 1590s, from French calamine , from Old French calemine , chalemine (13c.), from Medieval Latin calamina , corrupted by alchemists from Latin cadmia "zinc ore," from Greek kadmeia (see cadmium ). Or possibly the Medieval Latin ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Calamine commonly refers to calamine lotion . Calamine also may refer to: Calamine , a pinkish powder used in calamine lotion Calamine (mineral) , a historic name for an ore of zinc named after the La Calamine mine in Kelmis, Belgium Calamine brass , an ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pale pink powdered form of zinc oxide used in skin lotions 2 The zinc silicate mineral hemimorphite
Usage examples of calamine.
Then I weighed out another four thousand and told him that I wanted him to buy copper and calamine at the best possible prices.
We could buy copper at half price, along with some calamine, lead, and tin, if we bought his entire stock.
We have long known the Red Lotion of Calamine as discovered in ancient times by the Egyptians, applied to soothe irritations of the skin.
We have seen the application of the oil of vitriol to Calamine yields white vitriol and know how this agent toils against the powers of destruction and rot.
So it may now be told that Zink is the vital essence and fused earth in Calamine ore.
First the Calamine ore must be roasted to remove volatile antagonists.
Patrick was comfortably unaware of the ridiculous figure he presented in the pink pants and matching calamine lotion.
On the way over she stopped at the grocery store and stocked up on 7-Up, Popsicles, and calamine lotion.
She was lying on the couch dabbing calamine lotion on her legs and reading college catalogs.
Luster in a nightshirt, his face unshaven and liberally spotted with calamine lotion.
They had stopped on their midmorning break and she was squatting over her bag, searching for a spare bottle of calamine lotion.
Returning to StregaSchloss with the morning papers and milk, Latch the butler had vanished bearing a bottle of calamine lotion and a wire brush in the hopes of calming down his new crop of midge bites.
But her son had been a man for a long time now, and those days of dabbing mosquito bites with calamine lotion and healing hurts with kisses were gone forever.
Mrs Palk had painted calamine on his sunburned legs, but they were very sore and tender, and although he tried to hide the pain he winced every time he took a step.
The latter mode of origin is suggested by the frequent occurrence of calamine pseudomorphous after calcite, that is, having the form of calcite crystals.