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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...

production of calamine brass in Germany and the Low Countries, areas rich in calamine ore. These places would remain important centres of brass making throughout...

Calamine is a historic name for an ore of zinc. The name calamine was derived from lapis calaminaris, a Latin corruption of Greek cadmia (καδμία), the...

(then called "latten" - a zinc-copper alloy produced via the obsolete calamine brass process) and rubbing the paper with graphite, wax, or chalk, a process...

powder used in calamine lotion Calamine (mineral), a historic name for an ore of zinc Calamine brass, an early method of making brass by reacting copper...

utensils. Brass of this period is made through the calamine brass process, from copper and zinc ore. (Later brass was made with zinc metal from Champion's smelting...

period, brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, was usually produced by a cementation process in which metallic copper was heated with calamine, a zinc ore...

Examples of brass mills include Brassmill (Ross on Wye) Saltford Brass Mill Calamine brass Latten William Champion Day, J. (1973). Bristol Brass. David &...

5%-97% Copper) (beryllium)j Billon (silver) Brass (zinc) see also Brass §Brass types for longer list Calamine brass (zinc) Chinese silver (zinc) Dutch metal...

worthless. The manufacture of brass was known to the Romans by about 30 BC. They made brass by heating powdered calamine (zinc silicate or carbonate),...

Keynsham. The brass was made from Cornish ores refined at Crew's Hole and then transported via the river. These were mixed with calamine from the Mendip...

for brass production at that time. Rivers like the Vichtbach, which passes by the factory, supplied the power to move the water wheels. Calamine, a major...

for weapons and vessels. The greatest interest in calamine had been in the 18th century when brass manufactures settled in Stolberg (Rhineland). For the...

Humfrey needed someone knowledgeable about calamine ore, essential to the production of latten and brass, and in 1563 he paid the way to England of a...

banking room included Alaskan and Kasota marble, Honduran mahogany, and Calamine brass for doors. By August 1913, the building was complete and tenants began...

Champion is credited with patenting in Britain a process to extract zinc from calamine in a smelter, a technology that bore a strong resemblance to and was probably...

solid copper metal with zinc oxide or carbonate which comes in the form of calamine or smithsonite. This is heated to about 900 °C, the zinc oxide vaporizes...

also an ancient name for calamine or zinc carbonate. Combined with copper, it was used in ancient times for the production of brass, as mentioned, for instance...

subjects ranging from coffee making to the use of calamine, eventually renamed smithsonite, in making brass. He also studied the chemistry of human tears...

Britain to distill zinc metal from calamine using charcoal in a smelter. After Abraham Darby I had left the Bristol Brass Company to form his own new copper...