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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 88 — ZINC.

William Johnston translation

This however I will not with certainty affirm. As calmey and galmey have probably taken their rise from cadmia or calimia, and as both these words signified proper calamine, as well as ofenbruch, the latter, perhaps, may at an earlier period have signified furnace-calamine.

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