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3 unusual facts about Zinc oxide


Athlete's foot

Zinc oxide-based diaper rash ointment may be used; talcum powder can be used to absorb moisture to kill off the infection.

Beige Brigade

Brigadiers and those who flatter them in imitation are now commonly seen sporting the very short shorts known as "Stubbies" and other items such as sweat bands, fluorescent zinc sunblock, and aviator sunglasses that were once staples of New Zealand summer menswear.

Eijsden

In 1870, a zinc white factory brought industrial activity to the municipality, along with jobs and air pollution.


Aimé Morot

For his oil paintings on canvas, Aimé Morot had a preference for a colour palette consisting of silver white, zinc white, yellow ochre, red ochre, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, raw sienna, burnt sienna, cobalt blue, emerald green, rose madder, carmine lake and ivory black.

Atomic layer deposition

ALD can be used to deposit several types of thin films, including various oxides (e.g. ZnO, nitrides (e.g. TiN, TaN, WN, NbN), metals (e.g. Ru, Ir, Pt), and metal sulfides (e.g. ZnS).

Micromorph

The intermediate reflector is a layer (IRL) of Zinc oxide (ZnO intermediate reflector: ZIR) or Silicon oxide (SiOx intermediate reflector: SOIR) between the top and the bottom cell.


see also

Desitin

Desitin Ointment, a diaper rash ointment, mainly based on zinc oxide and cod liver oil

Quickclear

First seen on the 1985 Ford Scorpio/Granada Mk.III in Europe and the Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable in the U.S., the system uses a mesh of very thin heating wires, or a silver/zinc oxide coated film embedded between two layers of windscreen glass.The overall effect when operative was defogging & defrosting of the windscreen at a very high rate.