What's the difference between calamine and calamint?

Calamine


Definition:

  • (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like Ray, my parents are Bengali and while they had been taking me back to Kolkata during long summer holidays, I had failed to take to the city, which seemed to offer only August heat, difficult food and calamine lotion for mosquito bites.
  • (2) A method for the quantitative analysis of phenol in phenolated calamine lotion USP is described.
  • (3) Trompeteler said Hepburn “comes across as a very modest young woman really ... she clearly had great potential and talent but in the published interviews of the time she was modest.” The exhibition will include the young Hepburn in fashion photographs taken by Beauchamp and pictures taken by Angus McBean in 1950 featuring her as the face of Crookes Lacto-Calamine skin cream (“Your skin is not for burning”).
  • (4) The quantitative determinations of phenol in phenolated calamine lotion USP and of phenol and resorcinol in phenol-resorcinol-boric acid solution by high-pressure liquid chromatography are reported.
  • (5) There is no interference from other ingredients of the lotion (bentonite magma, calamine, and zinc oxide) or solution (acetone and boric acid).
  • (6) High-pressure liquid chromatography was used with a 5-micrometer silica gel column to quantitate the phenol in phenolated calamine lotion USP and a commercial antiseptic solution.

Calamint


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.

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