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How is zinc used in everyday life?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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it is used as currency of a country or used to make coins and some suntan lotions have zinc. Zinc is used to coat other metals (galvanizing) to protect them from rusting. It is also used in alloys such as brass, bronze, nickel. Also in solder, cosmetics and pigments. Zinc is found everywhere in daily life: in every cell of the human body, in the earth, in the food we eat and in products we use (sun block, automobiles, cosmetics, airplanes, appliances, surgical tools, zinc lozenges). For example, we use Zinc to galvanize our cars and airplanes to prevent rust. Zinc Oxide provides the best broad spectrum protection against both UVA and UVB rays.

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Zinc is used for Canadian nickels and the cores of Canadian pennies (i dont know about the US). Pennies are made from Zinc cores and coated with copper. Its cheaper than making pennies out of copper. (They used to make pennies out of copper, but they stopped because people would get pennies and melt them down and sell the copper for profit :D ) -Besides being used as a filler metal, zinc is widely used in corrosion management. It is used in paint, to coat metals, and as anodes on the bottom of boats. It also is used in vitamins.

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zinc is used in makingpennies ,; paint and vitamins.

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