print email comment close International Zinc Association URL: http://www.iza.com/ Description: This site features descriptions of the uses of zinc. The publications section provides a history of zinc, a zinc guide with statistics, and material about the role of zinc oxide in rubber processing, zinc protective coatings, zinc and human health, and the supporting role zinc played "in many of the major inventions of the 20th Century. From transistors to lasers, satellites to circuit boards, photocopiers to fuel cells." From an industry association. Publisher: International Zinc Association LII Database Information: Record 21970 created by Maria Brandt on 06/26/2006 Last modification on 11/09/2006 Published: 06/29/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21970