Definitions for zincs

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zincs zinc

Spelling: [zingk]

IPA: /zɪŋk/

Zincs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in zincs (cinsz).

Definitions for zincs

noun

1. Chemistry. a ductile, bluish-white metallic element: used in making galvanized iron, brass, and other alloys, and as an element in voltaic cells. Symbol: Zn; atomic weight: 65.37; atomic number: 30; specific gravity: 7.14 at 20°C.
2. a piece of this metal used as an element in a voltaic cell.

verb (used with object)

1. to coat or cover with zinc.

Origin of zincs

1635-45; German Zink, perhaps derivative of Zinke(n) prong, tine, from the spikelike form it takes in a furnace

Examples for zincs

The letters were then transferred to the zinc by pressure, so as to be printed from.

Then Gervaise understood that he fancied he was on a roof, laying down sheets of zinc.

And many are packed with nutrients like zinc, iron, and calcium.

“What we made was zinc and aluminum die castings,” he told me last Friday in Lima, Ohio.

The more than 50,000 who reside in West Point live mostly in shacks made of zinc with rusted tin roofs.

Plus, the beef delivers an extra dose of zinc, which protects against weakening of the immune system.

It so happened that on that day he was to fix the last sheets of zinc.

The roof of the great porch of the kitchen-door was covered with zinc.

But the coolest part may have been what was placed inside a zinc case in the cornerstone.

Bending over his bench, he was now artistically cutting out his zinc.