Zinc
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Zinc
Zinc is in many of our everyday items ! Such as a Television. Zinc enables your TV screen to show the colours green and blue. Another thing zinc plays a part in is Iron nails, Zinc acts as a protective layer over the nail so that it will minimize corrosion. Zinc is also used to make dry cell batteries, due to batteries needing a negative and positive charge in order to create energy it uses zinc as a negative charge because it releases electrons.
Zinc is number 30 on the periodic table of elements
Zinc is classified as a metal.
The word zinc comes from the German word zink
Zinc is one of the earth's most abundant elements.
Zinc serves as a dietary supplement to help us be healthy
Over fifty countries produce zinc the biggest producer is China
For the most part to get zinc to produce it needs to be mined.
Zinc is known as a blueish white, lustrous metallic element as well as the chemical symbol for Zinc is "Zn"
Definition of an Atomic Number: THE AMOUNT OF PROTONS IN THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM WHICH VERIFY'S THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF AN ELEMENT AND ITS PLACEMENT ON THE PERIODIC TABLE.
Zinc's Atomic number is : 30
Definition of Atomic Mass : Is the mass of an atom expressed in atomic mass units. It equals the amount of protons and neutrons in the atom.
Zinc's Atomic Mass is : 65.39 amu
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The first Video titled "The Simpsons Zinc" is showing what it would be like without zinc in your life. Therefore it shows a boy who cannot use his electrical appliances to do his everyday things such as calling someone. The video shows that zinc is needed in a lot of technology we have now a days and how it is now a part of our way of life.
The second video "Zinc Oxide and you-Kentucky fried movie" is about a mother trying to do her day to day routine but is unable to succeed at doing them because she has no zinc. So everything she tries to do is taken away to show how much zinc is needed and used in today's society. Therefore this video shows in a more humorous way how much we depend on zinc !
Bibliography:
http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/zn.html
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele030.html
http://www.facts-about.org.uk/science-element-zinc.htm