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calamine
The former name of two zinc minerals, smithsonite and hemimorphite. In medicine, calamine lotion (a preparation of zinc carbonate) is a mild astringent used in the form of a lotion, cream, or ointment to treat eczema and other itchy skin diseases. For the treatment of psoriasis it is included in a coal tar preparation.
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