zinc
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She wrote in her report that “heavy metals, notably lead, zinc, copper, chromium, arsenic, and antimony, were detected above laboratory reporting limits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
To investigate the mystery, the researchers measured gamma rays produced as a radioactive copper isotope decayed into zinc.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Sublime Sand’s two- to four-bedroom villas are scattered through the forest and made of wood, glass and zinc, to blend into the landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Indium is a byproduct of zinc smelting, so how much gets recovered depends on zinc economics, not on laser demand.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The roofless room Father had built for water storage was open, its zinc sheet cover lying on the ground and the ladder thrown near it.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
Even the best zincs will not provide full protection if they're not installed correctly and replaced in a timely fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly L'Express.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another method is to dip the zincs in dilute sulphuric acid and then pour on a little mercury, but these methods, except in the case of the Fuller battery, are wasteful of mercury.
Yet in all these cases the zincs had been well-cleaned from adhering copper, &c., before each trial of power.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
Another method of amalgamating zincs is to clean them by dipping them in dilute sulphuric acid and then in mercury, allowing the surplus to drain off.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Kempster Miller
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