nihil album

== English == === Etymology === From Medieval Latin nihil album (“white nothing”), from late medieval confusion of German nichts (“nothing”) and nix with Latin nix (“snow, snow-white thing”), used for white forms of zinc oxide. Doublet of nill. === Noun === nihil album (uncountable) (chemistry, obsolete) Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms. === References === “nihil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.