Examples

• About three quarters of the total is consumed as metal, mainly as a coating to protect iron and steel from corrosion (galvanized metal), as an alloying metal to make bronze and brass, as zinc-based die-casting alloy and as rolled zinc.
  فمن حيث كمية إنتاجه يحتل الزنك المرتبة الرابعة، أي يعتبر المعدن الرابع في العالم ولا يسبقه إلا الحديد والألمونيوم والنحاس.

Notices

• Galvanic corrosion is accelerated corrosion of a metal because of electrical contact with a more noble metal or nonmetallic conductor in a corrosive electrolyte.