Crossword-Solution: ZINC 4 letters, 340 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Zinc	n.	An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.
Zinc	v. t.	To coat with zinc; to galvanize.

We have 340 clues for the answer “ZINC”

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"From A to ___" (multivitamin ad line)	1 answer
#30 on a table	1 answer
#30 on the periodic table	1 answer
.975 cents?	1 answer
97.5% of a modern United States penny	1 answer
97.5% of a penny	1 answer
A lot of brass	1 answer
A new penny is mostly this	1 answer
A penny, mostly	1 answer
About 97% of the modern penny	1 answer
About 97.5% of a modern penny	1 answer
Alloy base	1 answer
Alloy ingredient	1 answer
Alphabetically penultimate element	1 answer
At. no. 30	1 answer
Atomic number 30	1 answer
Battery element	1 answer
Battery maker's material	1 answer
Blue-white element	1 answer
Bluish white metal	1 answer
Bluish-white metal	1 answer
Bluish-white metalic element.	1 answer
Brass constituent	1 answer
Brass metal	1 answer
Brass part?	1 answer
CRYSTALLINE metallic element	1 answer
Calamine ingredient	1 answer
Calamine mineral	1 answer
Coating for iron	1 answer
Coating metal	1 answer
Coating on galvanized iron.	1 answer
Color called cloud gray	1 answer
Color called gray dawn	1 answer
Component of an Olympic bronze medal	1 answer
Component of brass	1 answer
Constituent of brass.	1 answer
Copper's partner in brass	1 answer
Corrosion-preventing coating	1 answer
Daily tablet ingredient	1 answer
Dandruff shampoo component	1 answer
Easily dissolved element	1 answer
Element #30	1 answer
Element No. 30	1 answer
Element in brass	1 answer
Element in some ointments	1 answer
Element next to copper	1 answer
Element used as a cold remedy	1 answer
Element with a silvery-blue appearance	1 answer
Essential mineral	1 answer
Essential nutrient for the immune system	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

EMZCEA

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with ZINC (5)

Output of the extractive industries includes coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Armenia has some deposits of nonferrous metal ores (bauxite, copper, zinc, and molybdenum) that are largely unexploited.

The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Two plates, one of copper and the other of zinc, were placed in an acid solution and a current flowed through an external wire connecting the two plates.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

The plate having been dipped into cold water, is placed in a solution of common salt, of moderate strength; it lies without being acted upon at all; but if it be now touched on one corner with a piece of zinc, which has been scraped bright, the yellow coat of iodine moves off like a wave and disappears.

American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994

The zinc plates of the battery have been amalgamated with quicksilver, and when the battery is set into the jar of acid there should be no action percieved upon them when the poles F, G, are not in contact.

The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry H. Snelling 2008

Quotes with ZINC (3)

You Are What You Eat Take food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself - as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by our culture. We understand that Australians prefer cricket to baseball, or that the French somehow find Gerard Depardieu sexy, but how hungry would you have to be before you would consider plucking a moth from the night air and popping it, frantic and dusty, into your mouth? Flap, cru…

Christopher Ryan

My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special ‘cry’. ‘It’s due to deformation of the crystal structure,’ she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - and yet her words fascinated me, made me want to know more.

Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten

Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to represent abstract Beauty. Very wonderful. But I hope there will always be room for me to dart about among the statues, don't you, Father Stone?

Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 266 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).