Cadmia n. : 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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Defination from the web:
cadmia (Latin for calamine), is an oxide of zinc (tutty) which collects on the sides of furnaces where copper or brass was smelted, and zinc sublimed. ... In pre-modern medicine, cadmia was used as a desiccative and detersive, in moist stinking ulcers, causing the area to ...