Zinc

History
 
Zinc started smelt in the 5 th century BC in India. Method for production of metallic zinc described in 1veke BC Roman historian Strabop. In 1743 built the first plant to obtain metallic zinc in Ekrope, Bristol.

Nowadays

Mainly zinc used for coating of various metals in order to improve corrosion resistance. Zinc is used in chemical reactions on the selection of gold and silver from cyanide compounds. In the printing using the form of zinc. Widely known zinc white, which are its oxide. Some compounds of zinc ispolschuyutsya in medicine. Zinc is used in batteries.