Why is this element important in everyday life?
Zinc is one of the ten essential vitamins needed in everyday life
Makes the casings of dry batteries
Coats steel and iron products such as bridges and cars
Coats barbed wire fences
Where is this element found in nature?
Zinc is found within rocks. You must smelt the rock and remove the ore which contains the zinc.
What are the properties of the element?
Metal
Highly reactive
Transition Metal
Group 12
General Characteristics =
Corrosion-resistant metal
When polished it is bluish white
Difficult to separate from its compounds
Zinc is amphoteric
Few elements are more relative than zinc
Atomic Symbol =Zn
Period Number = 4
Group Number and Family Name =Group 12, Transition Metal
Atomic Number =30
Atomic Mass =65.37
Density =7.13(g/cm3
Melting Point =419.6 degrees C
Boiling Point =907 degrees C
Electron Configuration =Zn-1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d2
Shorthand Notation =[Ar]4s23d10
Common Reactions = Amphoteric
Corrosion-resistant metal
Interesting Information =Egyptians were the first use zinc
If you scratch a surface with it, it leaves a brown color.
Who is Zinc?
"Hello, I'm Chad Clark and tonight on twenty-twenty we will be talking to Zinc and asking him questions on where he came from and what he is used for."
"Hello Zinc I would like to welcome you to the show."
"It's a pleasure to be here Chad."
"Zinc you have helped so many people in many ways, how does that make you feel."
"Well Chad, I am overwhelmed to have the ability to help people in so many ways, I mean I can coat the bridges and cars that people walk and drive on all the way to being a key vitamin in the daily diet."
"Let's go back a few years and find out where you came from."
"I was first used by the Egyptians in there brass statues and other relics. I was used to coat them so that they would not tarnish. Later I met my good friend Johann Henckel, he was the first extract me from a rock by the process of smelting."
"Some people say you overreact, is that true?"
"I am very reactive. Actually I am more reactive than most metals."
"You save the American tax-payers a whole lot of money each year on the coating of bridges and cars. Can you explain what your role is in that."
"I am a corrosion-resistant metal, so a piece of metal is dipped into molten zinc and that coats the surface to prevent it from rusting."
"Why are you used to coat instruments."
"Well I'm extremely light and coat the brass to keep it from tarnishing. I'm used the same way on instruments as I was used by my Egyptian friends.
"That pretty much wraps up our interview and I would just like to give you this life time achievement award for all of the items you have preserved and all of the diets you have balanced."
