Calamines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 649 anagrams from letters in calamines (aaceilmns).
1595-1605; Medieval Latin calamīna, unexplained alteration of Latin cadmia cadmium; see -ine1
calamine, kal′a-mīn, n. an ore consisting essentially of carbonate of zinc.
calamine is commonly employed only to convert copper into brass, or a yellow metal, by cementing it therewith.
Early brass was copper mixed with calamine melted in a crucible.
The systematic distillation of zinc from calamine was not discovered in Europe until the 18th Century.
Smithsonite is a carbonate much resembling, and often found with, calamine.
The twelfth, that Copper has a greater affinity with Mercury than with calamine.
Generally speaking the growth of these plants on the calamine soils was weak and poor, the stems and leaves being very brittle.
Black ore, containing copper with galenea, calamine, and some silver; 6.
The general content of ZnO in plants is given as 5–10% of ash, except in the abnormal case of plants growing on calamine.
Three parts of copper were used for three of calamine and two of charcoal.
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