38* penny metal

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Element of the day (day 38)
#30) Zn- Zinc -] metal 
Critical for life processes in plants and animals.
Discovered in the 13th Century in India.
A lustrous bluish-white metal. A very useful metal. Used to plate iron and protect it from corrosion, in brass and solder, batteries, tires, cement, paint, rubber, cosmetics, plastics, printing inks, soap, textiles, TV screens, medicines. The US penny is mostly zinc.

Mined from several minerals, most from sphalerite from Canada, Russia, Australia, Peru and the USA. Also from smithsonite, hemimorphite, and zincite.