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Cadmia

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Cad´mi`a
n.1.(Min.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.


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When in his second letter Vespucci enumerates some twenty spices and drugs traded by the Portuguese (26), the reader is apt to be puzzled by items such as "mummy" (a bituminous resin) and "cadmium" (presumably cadmia or calamine, since the element was only discovered in 1817).
Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America by Marsh, David / Renaissance Quarterly
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