different between silicate vs calamine

English

Etymology

From silic(on) +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?ke?t/
• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?k?t/
• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?k?t/
• Hyphenation: sili?cate

Noun

silicate (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates

   Hypernym: compound

   Hyponyms: aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate, aluminomagnesian silicate, aluminosilicate, bismuth silicate, borophosphosilicate, calcium magnesium silicate, cerous silicate, cyclosilicate, inosilicate, magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate, magnesium silicate, neosilicate, orthosilicate, phosphosilicate, phyllosilicate, pyrosilicate, sodium silicate, sorosilicate, subsilicate, tectosilicate, titanosilicate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• silicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ciliates

French

Noun

silicate m (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) silicate

English

Etymology

From French calamine, from Medieval Latin calam?na, from Latin cadm??a, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kadmeí?), after ?????? (Kádmos, “Cadmus”), mythological founder of Thebes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

calamine (usually uncountable, plural calamines)

1. A pale pink powdered form of zinc oxide used in skin lotions.
2. (mineralogy) The zinc silicate mineral hemimorphite.

Translations

Verb

calamine (third-person singular simple present calamines, present participle calamining, simple past and past participle calamined)

1. (transitive) To coat or treat with calamine.

Anagrams

• analcime, camelina

French

Noun

calamine f (plural calamines)

1. calamine (zinc oxide or silicate)
2. Residue of carbon deposited in the cylinders of two-stroke engines

Further reading

• “calamine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

calamine f

1. plural of calamina