Zinc
ZINC, a metallic chemical element; its symbol is Zn, and atomic weight 65.37 (0= 16). Zinc as a component of brass (XaXKOs, 6pei-XaXKos) had currency in metallurgy long before it became known as an individual metal. Aristotle refers to brass as the "metal of the Mosynoeci," 2 which is produced as a bright and light-coloured XaXK6s, not by addition …