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Zinc is not the only element whose name starts with the letter z. There is also zirconium. To distinguish between these two elements, it is necessary to use more than just a z. So they made zinc Zn and zirconium Zr. It's true that they could have made zinc Z and still would have been able to distinguish it from Zr, but this would imply that zinc is more important than zirconium, and this would offend the powerful zirconium lobby. Remember, zirconium is used to make fake diamonds.

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