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calamine is no longer considered a valid term. It has been replaced by smithsonite and hemimorphite in order to distinguish it from the pinkish mixture of
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to search for the mineral and produce brass, to reduce dependence on imported metal from Germany. Factories to exploit the process were established at
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external form and are not readily distinguished without detailed chemical or physical analysis. The first person to separate the minerals was the
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During the early 19th century it was discovered that what had been thought to be one ore was actually two distinct
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Although chemically and crystallographically quite distinct, the two minerals exhibit similar massive or
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industry the term calamine has been historically used to refer to both minerals indiscriminately.
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This article is about calamine in mineralogy. For the calamine used in calamine lotion, see
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The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century
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described the medicinal and veterinary properties of the compound when in
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Mined example from the 17th century brass-producing town of
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Medical and Surgical Therapeutics of the Foot and Ankle
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Calamine
Calamine (disambiguation)

Granby, Missouri

Sterling Hill mine

Stolberg, Jülich
ore
zinc
Belgian
Kelmis
French
German
village
Breinigerberg
minerals
carbonate
C
O
smithsonite
silicate
Si
H
hemimorphite
botryoidal
British
James Smithson
mining
mineralogy

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