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…

? Calamine.

= calaminaris, adj. n.

a substance resembling a useful ore; spec. sphalerite (zinc blende).

Sulphide of zinc occurring as a native crystalline mineral.

calamine.

sphalerite (zinc blende).

Mining. The mineral sphalerite or blende.

‘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 red ore of zinc; spec. = zincite, n.

an old name for native zinc carbonate (= calamine, n., smithsonite, n. 2).

native zinc sulphide = blende, n.

A mineral consisting of zinc carbonate, typically occurring as colourless prisms and crystalline aggregates.

A native oxide of zinc, of a deep-red or orange-yellow colour, found in New Jersey; red oxide of zinc, red zinc ore.

A zinc mineral occurring as yellow, green, or colourless crystals or crystal aggregates.

= adamite, n.2