Color Names

Clear Calamine

Zinc oxide lotion, the kind that turns skin into a calm, pale mask.

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Clear Calamine is a white.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

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Clear Calamine

Calamine

Calamine, also known as calamine lotion, is a medication made from a combination of powdered zinc oxide and 0.5% ferric oxide (Fe2O3) that is used to treat mild itching. It benefits sunburn, insect bites, allergenic irritation, and other mild skin conditions, and may also help dry out secretions resulting from skin irritation. Calamine has also been used as a treatment for acne and acne scars, although it may damage the barrier of sensitive skin. Its name comes from calamine, a historic name for the zinc ores smithsonite and hemimorphite.

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale, the photons can be said to follow Snell's law. Translucency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material. It allows light to pass through but the light does not necessarily follow Snell's law on the macroscopic scale; the photons may be scattered at either of the two interfaces, or internally, where there is a change in the index of refraction. In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction, while a transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant spectrum of every color. The opposite property of translucency is opacity. Other categories of visual appearance, related to the perception of regular or diffuse reflection and transmission of light, have been organized under the concept of cesia in an order system with three variables, including transparency, translucency and opacity among the involved aspects.

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clear

Adjective

  1. Transparent in colour.
  2. Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.

Adverb

  1. All the way; entirely.
  2. Not near something or touching it.
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calamine

Noun

  1. Synonym of smithsonite, a pink form of zinc oxide (mainly zinc carbonate ZnCO3) formed as a byproduct of zinc sublimation, now used in skin lotions.
  2. Synonym of hemimorphite, an orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing zinc.

Verb

  1. To coat or treat with calamine.
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