Zinc
From London's Ghost Acres
Imported from
- Holland
- Belgium
- Hamburg
- Prussia
- Canada
- France
- South Africa
- United States of America
- Germany
- Australasia
- British North America
- Russia
- Denmark
- Italy
- Sweden
- Portugal
- Norway
- Algeria
- Spain
- Greece
Description
Zinc is most often used as an alloy with copper, creating brass. It is also used in a similar manner to tin for coating steel and other metals susceptible to corrosion. Steel which has been coated with zinc is called galvanized steel.