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† ˈcadmia Chem. Obs.
[a. L. cadmī̆a, a. Gr. καδµεία or καδµία γῆ ‘Cadmean earth’.]
‘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.
1657Phys. Dict., Cadmia officinarum, tutty. 1674A. A. Barba Art of Mettals i. xxxiv. 146 Cadmia is also that which sticks to the walls of the Furnaces, principally wherein Copper is melted. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Cadmia, sometimes signifies a fossil substance, as the Lapis calaminaris. 1837Dana Min. (1868) 409 The cadmia of Pliny and of other ancient authors included both the native silicate and carbonate, and the oxyd from the chimneys of furnaces (cadmia fornacum). |