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Adamsite vs Adamite - What's the difference?

adamsite | adamite |

As nouns the difference between adamsite and adamite

is that adamsite is an organic compound, diphenylaminechlorarsine, used as a riot-control agent while adamite is (historical) one of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of the biblical adam, discarded the use of clothing in their assemblies.

As an adjective adamite is

of or pertaining to the biblical adam.

adamsite

English

(wikipedia adamsite)

Noun

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  • An organic compound, diphenylaminechlorarsine, used as a riot-control agent.

    • Synonyms

    * DM

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    adamite

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A descendant of Adam; a human being.

    • Etymology 2

    Named after French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881) in 1866.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy , John Wiley & Sons, 1997

    Noun

    (head)
  • (mineral) A zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, Zn]]2AsO4O[[hydrogen, H.

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