Chemical element
A chalcophile element and the principal metal of the sediment-hosted and volcanogenic massive sulfide classes, carried in hydrothermal fluids as a chloride complex and deposited chiefly as sphalerite.
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Zinc has atomic number 30: its nucleus contains 30 protons, and that is what makes it zinc.
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The standard atomic weight of zinc is given as 65.38(2).
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The symbol for zinc is Zn, as given in the CIAAW table of standard atomic weights.
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