Zn=ZINC (the element, that is!)

Zn=ZINC (the element, that is!)
An Internet Hotlist on Zinc

created by kollyn-maryacoleman09

Introduction

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Zinc= the most important element for your HEALTH!!!

The Internet Resources

Zinc/About Chemistry - This website includes the main facts about the element Zinc. There are 21 known isotopes of zinc, 5 stable and 16 unstable. Natural zinc contains the 5 stable isotopes. Zinc burns in air at high red heat, evolving white clouds of zinc oxide. It is a fair electrical conductor. Zinc has a melting point of 419.58°C, boiling point of 907°C, specific gravity of 7.133 (25°C), with a valence of 2.
Zinc/CTDS - This website provides information about Zinc deficiency. Many of the features of common chronic disorders, especially connective tissue disorders, are identical to the symptoms of zinc deficiencies. Zinc deficiency can include a poor immune system as well as well as lack of sexual development in men and women. This website connects you to many other websites that show specific cases of zinc deficiency. It also helps you understand what zinc does in order to keep your immune system healthy. Zinc deficiency is a major factor underlying immune dysfunction in select human populations.
Zinc/Dietary Supplements - This website is very helpful in understanding what zinc is and how it s important to dietary supplements as well as the deficiency of it. Zinc is an essential mineral that is found in almost every cell. It stimulates the activity of approximately 100 enzymes, which are substances that promote biochemical reactions in your body (1,2). The website helps you understand what kind of food is needed in order to prevent Zinc deficiency. It also gives you a chart of the ages that is necessary to have Zinc in a diet.

About Zinc

Zinc/Environmental Chemistry - This website provides comprehensive data on the chemical element Zinc. Although there is a lot of information, this website does not give u brief or long information about Zinc. Common chemical compounds are also provided for many other elements in this website. In addition technical terms are linked to their definitions and the menu contains links to related articles that are a great aid in one studies. This website tells the numbers for all of the most important features of Zinc.
Zinc/Library - This website is important if you would like to find out about many different elements and how they are important to the current day. Zinc is a reasonable conductor of electricity, but it burns at a high red heat. Zinc is non-toxic, but is an essential element in the growth of plants and animals. A large portion of Zinc is used in the galvanization of steel and other metals. Zinc metal is also used in dry batteries, roof coating, and to protect iron buildings from corrosion.
Zinc/METSOC - This website is practically a virtual tour of the element Zinc. It is a website that gives general information about both Lead and Zinc. Zinc is a bluish-white, lustrous metal. It is brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable at 100 to 150 degrees Celsius. It is a reasonable conductor of electricity, and burns in air at high red heat with evolution of white clouds of the oxide.
Zinc/Radio Chemistry - This website gives the historical background of Zinc. Although there isn’t as much information about Zinc that you may want, there is enough to help you understand the true background of the element. It tells you about the costs of Zinc today along with the uses, sources, and isotopes. Zinc is not considered to be toxic but, if not handled properly you can get symptoms known as zinc chills or oxide shakes. Naturally occurring zinc contains five stable isotopes. Sixteen other unstable isotopes are recognized.
Zinc/Yahoo Answers - This website doesn’t really answer all of the questions that may need to be answered. You can email other chemistry students or teachers to ask them for help on specific subjects that have to deal with chemistry or a specific element. This website helps you learn how to balance equations and resolve open questions. Although it is not specifically helpful to knowing the true facts about Zinc, it does help with on the spot questions like mixed equations and relations to other elements. Yahoo answers may not be the best choice for learning about Zinc.
Zinc/Zinc - This website is very interesting and fun. As soon as you reach the website you are welcomed with an array of chimes and soft felt music that brightens your day. It offers just about everything that you need to know about Zinc. It gives you all of the important facts about Zinc and why it’s important for every living organism. It gives you an idea of how Zinc can be incorporated into people’s everyday life.

History Behind Zinc

Zinc/Chinese School - This website is from the Los Angeles Chinese Learning Center and provides information about how Zinc is produced. It also gives information about the importance of having Zinc in your diet. Before Zinc was discovered in metallic form, its ores were used for making brass and zinc compounds were used for healing wounds and sore eyes. By 1374, Zinc was recognized in India as a new metal and a Zawar, India, both Zinc metal and Zinc Oxide was produced from the 12th to the 16th century. The raw material used for production of Zinc is Zinc concentrate, which is the result of a flotation process after the ore has been mined and milled.
Zinc/Education - Although this website is not very helpful in finding all of the information about Zinc, it is able to tell you the uses and the history of Zinc. Zinc was discovered by Andreas Sigismund Marggraf in 1746 by heating calamine with charcoal. Metallic Zinc was first produced in India sometime in the 1400s by heating calamine with wool. Zinc is a solid element. Today, Zinc is produced through electrolysis of aqueous zinc sulfate.
Zinc/World Famous - This website focuses on the facts and background of the element Zinc. Zinc is a moderately reactive metal that will combine with oxygen and other nonmetal, and will react with dilute acids to release hydrogen. Zinc is the fourth most common metal in use, trailing only iron, aluminum, and copper in tons of metal produced per year. This website also provided readers with the history of the element Zinc. It also tells you the biological role and how it’s essential to Zinc.

Zinc and Health

Zinc/Health - This website provides information about Zinc and how it realties so much to Zinc. An immense amount of research has been taking place over the last ten years or so, on the role of zinc in the human body. The remarkable ability of this metal to participate in flexible and easily exchangeable ligand binding with organic molecules underlies the extraordinary extend to which zinc has been incorporated into an impressive range of biological systems. Because of zinc's vital roles in cellular growth and differentiation, and probably for several other reasons, zinc is especially important at times of the human life cycle, for example early childhood and during the reproductive cycle, that are associated with rapid prenatal of postnatal growth. This website helps better understand how Zinc is able to help many humans with health, as well as save many lives.
Zinc/ODS - This website provides you with the necessary information that one needs to know about Zinc. It talks mostly about the dietary supplements that Zinc provides. This website also offers information that helps you know exactly when you need and do not need Zinc. It talks about the levels in some selected food that includes Zinc in many meals. It gives you an idea of what you should be eating in order to maintain Zinc in your everyday meal.
Zinc/Vitimans - Zinc is necessary for a healthy immune system, and is also of use in fighting skin problems such as acne, boils and sore throats. Zinc is also needed for cell division, and is needed by the tissue of hair, nails, and skin to be in top form. Zinc is needed for muscles in the process of getting stronger. All over the world there is a shortage of Zinc in many people’s diet, because zinc is destroyed in the milling process as well as cooking. Men with zinc shortage may have a problem with fertility, while women may experience irregular periods. Children with too little zinc may have stunted growth and slow sexual maturity. This website helps you understand Zinc and how it relates to the immune system.

Zinc and Foods

Zinc/LPI - This website offers the roles that Zinc plays on many nutrients and disease prevention as well as disease treatment. This website also shows the interactions as well as the conditions due to Zinc. For example, Zinc is very important to the nutrition’s in one’s body. Zinc has been shown to be needed in public health. The role of Zinc is dependent on growth and development.Zinc insufficiency has been recognized by a number of experts as an important public health issue, especially in developing countries. Adequate zinc intake is essential in maintaining the integrity of the immune system, and zinc-deficient individuals are known to experience increased susceptibility to a variety of infectious agents.

Zinc and Colds

Zinc/Medicine - This website provides information on how Zinc can be used for colds and sinus problems, as well what Zinc is. Since there is no actual cure for a cold, Zinc is thought to target the cold viruses that cause the symptoms. Zinc lozenges are sold all over the world ad sold as dietary supplements. The lozenges are marketed in two forms; zinc gluconate and zinc acetate. Zinc is an active ingredient in both forms.

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Last revised Sun Dec 16 10:49:14 US/Pacific 2007