Zinc can be used as a protective coating for iron and steel, and as a building or engineering material in the form of sheet zinc and zinc-alloy die-castings.

锌可用来作钢铁的保护层，还可制成锌板和锌合金压铸件用作建筑和工程材料。

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And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, abandoned or forgotten, and a hole.

而最使人痛心的是，在那堆石块后面，钉有锌牌的树脚下，有刚刚翻动过的泥土，留下的是一把被遗忘或被抛弃了的十字镐，还有一个土穴。

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The roof and facade are made of zinc sheet, metal and wood, which require very little maintenance.

屋顶和立面由很少需要维护的锌板、金属和木板组成。

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The two researchers built their transistors by coating both sides of a sheet of paper with semiconductors made of oxides of zinc, gallium and indium, rather than silicon.

ECONOMIST: A new use for a common material