1. 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
   "The steel bridge was protected from corrosion by Zn galvanizing";
   - zinc, atomic number 30

Type of: metal, metallic element

Part of: zinc selenite

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