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    person to separate the minerals was the British chemist and mineralogist James Smithson in 1803. In the mining industry the term calamine has been historically...
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    Look up calamine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Calamine, also known as calamine lotion, is a medication made from powdered calamine mineral that is...
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  • Calamine, a pinkish powder used in calamine lotion Calamine (mineral), a historic name for an ore of zinc Calamine brass, an early method of making brass...
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    Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately...
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  • Calamine brass is brass produced by a particular alloying technique using the zinc ore calamine directly, rather than first refining it to metallic zinc...
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    Hemimorphite (category Zinc minerals)
    chemical compound Zn4(Si2O7)(OH)2·H2O, a component of mineral calamine. It is a silicate mineral which, together with smithsonite (ZnCO3), has been historically...
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  • Platteville and Milwaukee Railroad. The Mineral Point Railroad constructed a 9.6-mile (15.4 km) branch line from Calamine, Wisconsin, to Belmont, Wisconsin...
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  • the use of bitumen, rock salt, yellow orpiment, chalk, alum, bismuth, calamine, realgar, stibnite, saltpeter, cinnabar, arsenic, sulphur, yellow and red...
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    Smithsonite (category Carbonate minerals)
    realized that they were two different minerals. The two minerals are very similar in appearance and the term calamine has been used for both, leading to...
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  • the minerals in each rock. The chemical elements were discovered in identified minerals and with the help of the identified elements the mineral crystal...
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