† cadmian.
Chemistry. Obsolete.
‘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.
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1657 Physical Dict. Cadmia officinarum, tutty.
a1672 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Art of Metals (1674) i. xxxiv. 146 Cadmia is also that which sticks to the walls of the Furnaces, principally wherein Copper is melted.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cadmia, sometimes signifies a fossil substance, as the Lapis calaminaris.
1837 J. D. Dana 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).
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