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abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized i…

Zinc chloride. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.

A binary compound of zinc. [R.]

Containing or affording zinc.

The act or process of applying zinc; the condition of being zincified, or covered with zinc; galvanization.

To coat or impregnate with zinc.

Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.

The act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.

, Pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance. [Written also zinky.]

A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively.

Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity. [Obs.]

The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode. [R.] Miller.

A zinc plate prepared for printing by zincography; also, a print from such a plate.

Am engraver on zinc.

Of or pertaining to zincography; as, zincographic processes.

The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid.

Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic; as, zincous salts.

The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.