1) Alchemical substance 2) Alloy base 3) Atomic number 30 4) Australian rock music group 5) Battery element 6) Battery metal 7) Blue-white element 8) Bluish white metal 9) Bluish-white element 10) Bluish-white metal 11) Bluish-white metallic element 12) Brass component 13) Brass element 14) Brass ingredient
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1) Base metal 2) Gray dawn 3) Zn
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A grey inexpensive metal, usually alloyed with copper to make brass coins, but is also used in pure form for emergency coinage when the usual coinage metal is not available due to war or other serious crisis. Much of the coinage struck in Nazi-Occupied Europe was tin-plated zinc.
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• (v. t.) To coat with zinc; to galvanize. • (n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used fo...
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chemical element, low-melting metal of Group IIb (zinc group) of the periodic table, essential to life, and one of the most widely used metals. Zinc ... [25 related articles]
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(Zn) A bluish-white, lustrous, metallic element in group IIB of the periodic table; zinc is an anomalous transition element. It occurs naturally as sphalerite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, and wurtzite, and is extracted by roasting to the oxide and reduction with carbon. Zinc...
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A hard white metal with a bluish tinge. Zinc base alloys are used extensively for diecasting.
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Discovered: known in India and China before 1500 and to the Greeks and Romans before 20 BC as the copper-zinc alloy brassOrigin: The name is derived from the German ‘Zink`.Atomic no: 30Mass No: 65Description: A grey metal with a blue tinge. World production exceeds 7 million tons a year, and it is used to galvanise iron to prevent it rusting....
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A softish grey metal, used in three ways in church buildings: 1. in pure sheet form to make ridging for slate roofs, or as a roof covering in its own right. 2. In pure rolled sections, to make glazing bars for small-paned glazing. 3. As a coating - galvanising - for wrought-iron or steel, Typical applications are to coat 'corrugated iron', gates ...
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<chemistry, element> An essential trace element being an essential component of the active site of a variety of enzymes. ... Zinc has a high affinity for the side chains of cysteine and histidine. Zinc is present in tissues at levels of 0.1mM, but intracellular levels must be much lower. ... Abbreviation: Zn ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(Zn) (zingk) a chemical element, atomic number 30, atomic weight 65.37. It is a trace element in the diet, a component of several enzymes, including DNA and RNA polymerases and carbonic anhydrase. It is abundant in red meat, shellfish, liver, peas, lentils, beans, and rice. A well-balanced d...
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A mineral whose deficiency causes hair loss. Zinc applied topically has reportedly been show to inhibit DHT.
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an essential trace mineral.
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A metal which is less commonly used in jewelry applications except as a component of alloys. Atomic symbol Zn.
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Bluish-white metallic element. It is used to form various alloys such as brass, bronze and nickel silver. Zinc was not produced commercially in Britain until the 18thC. See spelter.
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An essential ‘trace` element being an essential component of the active site of a variety of enzymes. Zn2+ has high affinity for the side chains of cysteine and histidine. Zinc is present in tissues at levels of ca 0.1mM, but intracellular levels must be much lower.
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Zinc (zĭnk)
noun [ German
zink , probably akin to
zinn tin: confer French
zinc , from the German. Confer
Tin .]
(Chemistry) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and frank...
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Zinc transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Zincked or
Zinced ;
present participle & verbal noun Zincking or
Zincing ] To coat with zinc; to galvanize.
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(Zn) Type: Term Pronunciation: zingk Definitions: 1. A metallic element, atomic no. 30, atomic wt. 65.39; an essential bioelement; a number of salts of zinc are used in medicine; a cofactor in many proteins.
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Bluish-white hard metal, occurring in various minerals, such as sphalerite.
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Chemical Symbol Zn. Element No. 30 of the periodic system; atomic weight 65.38. Blue-white metal; when pure, malleable and ductile even at ordinary temperatures; melting point 787 (degrees) F.; boiling point 1665 (degrees) F., specific gravity 7.14. Can be electrodeposited; it is extensively used as a coating for steel and sheet zinc finds many out...
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Mineral supplement, used by some people to treat autistic spectrum disorders
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Zn noun a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
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Hard, brittle, bluish-white, metallic element, atomic number 30, relative atomic mass 65.37. The principal ore is sphalerite or zinc blende (zinc sulphide, ZnS). Zinc is hardly affected by air or moisture at ordinary temperatures; its chief uses are in alloys such as brass, in coating metals (for example, galvanized iron), and in making bat...
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A mineral that is essential for proper nutrition.
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