Scientific American/Series 1/Volume 1/Issue 1/The Properties of Zinc

The Properties of Zinc.—Professor Farraday, as we are informed in the London Athenaeum, has made this metal the subject of many interesting experiments. He has discovered that it assumes new properties on being melted and poured into water, the metal becoming very malleable and soft, losing none of it tenacity, but still capable of being spun into the finest wire, pressed into any required form, or rolled into any thinness desired. This promises to be a very useful discovery.