zinc
zingk
- 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.
- 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.