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• n  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 naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
• v  coat or cover with zinc

• The amount of zinc in the human body is so small that textbooks offhandedly record its presence as "a trace.
• Zinc is also produced by copper miners, partly for the use of brass-making affiliates.
• The amount of zinc in the human body is so small that textbooks offhandedly record its presence as "a trace.

• Zn
• atomic number 30

News & Articles

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• Rathdowney completes preliminary metallurgical testwork for Olza Zinc-Lead project — Excellent results exceed ...
  Rathdowney completes preliminary metallurgical testwork for Olza Zinc-Lead project — Excellent results exceed expectations, returning high recoveries & concentrate grades
  June 18, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Rathdowney Reports Enthusiastic Results From Preliminary Metallurgical Test-work for Olza Zinc-Lead Project
  Rathdowney Reports Enthusiastic Results From Preliminary Metallurgical Test-work for Olza Zinc-Lead Project
  June 18, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Jarden Zinc, Zahner to debut new products at the AIA pre-convention party in Denver
  GREENEVILLE, Tenn., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jarden Zinc will announce its newest line of products, the Zahner ® series of patinated zinc, which will debut at a launch party prior to the American ...
  June 14, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Stephen Harper in Vancouver Sun
  I've said before that the North is poised to take a much bigger role in Canada,Harper said, "from its deposits of diamonds and silver to copper and zinc, the North is attracting international attention, capital, people and development. And...
• Anil Agarwal in Times of India
  The major difference is that we have linked the computational methods commonly used by pharmaceutical companies to a freely available database of five million existing compounds - the ZINC database. This means we cut out a hugely time consuming and... Winston Churchill http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHkelBesspleja8jMtoxdR_v_a80Q Thaindian.com (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/scientists-harness-new-drug-discovery-tool-to-treat-diabetes_100158485.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFtWzdyNiAlQR0XSt4l2FgrSdUo3A Feb 22, 2009 112192 147108 zinc We intend to invest Rs 50,000 crore in (the) aluminium sector and Rs 20,000 crore in other areas like copper, iron ore and zinc by 2011-12 in India," Vedanta Group Executive Chairman Anil Agarwal said.