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Zinc - School Papers

Zinc

Zinc

Introduction

Zinc is a fairly well known mineral. It is number 30 on the periodic table and most children would have used zinc on their face-coloured sunscreen. The most common uses are in collaboration with iron and steel as to prevent oxidation. Zinc is also a main component of fireworks. The largest zinc mines are in Broken Hill NSW (discovered 1883) and Mt. Isa QLD (discovered 1923). Australian map showing zinc mines Appendix 1. Technology also improves and helps to improve mining, the separation of minerals and science in general.

How zinc is used

Zinc has multiple uses, as it resists oxygen naturally and can be used to prevent the oxidation of iron and steel. One of ...

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from rusting. More than 50% of the world's mined zinc is used in this fashion known as galvanisation. The added bonus is the zinc slows weathering to the metal it protects.
Zinc is a great conductor of electricity after being alloyed other minerals to take the form of zinc-nickel and zinc-bromide which can be a main component in batteries (http://www.australianminesatlas.gov.au/education/rock_files/zinc.html). Zinc is even used in fireworks because zinc dust is highly flammable and when set on fire cause colourful sparks to come out.

Mining zinc

Before 1901 zinc was wasted because there was a non-applicable way for it to be separated into zinc and waste rock as it wasn't magnetic and gravity separation techniques proved to be ineffective. In 1901 at Broken Hill a group of eleven men (A.S. Elmore, F.E. Elmore, C.V. Potter, G.D Delprat, Auguste de Bavay, G.A. Chapman, F.J. Lyster, T.M. Owen, Leslie Bradford, I.W Wark and K.L. Sutherland) invented the froth flotation which ...

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Added: 9/18/2017 07:05:00 AM
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