spodiumn.
/ˈspəʊdɪəm/ Now rare.
A fine powder obtained from various substances by calcination. (See quots. and cf. nill n.2)
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > formed by calcination
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [noun] > calcined
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a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 63 Medicynez restrictyuez bene þise; Camphore, accacia, spodium [text spodin], coriandre.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (1535) 71 As spodium doth helpe and comforte the liuer.
1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 38v The Spodiom coniealeth in certaine canes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 520 There is a kind of Spodium also made of lead in the furnace.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 216 The ashes of their bones if salted, serve in stead of spodium.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo ii. 152 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Spodium is the ashes of a tree growing near Sunda.
1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Spodium, a sort of soot which rising from the trying of Brass, falls down at length to the bottom.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Moderns make their Spodium of Ivory burnt and calcined to a Whiteness.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 81 Ivory calcined until it becomes white has been regarded as absorbent:..some therapeutists have termed it Spode or Spodium.]
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