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1709–1782
Andreas Sigismund Marggraf
Discovered zinc in 1746.
Element
30ZnZinc
1746
Zinc had been refined in India and China for centuries. In Europe, Andreas Marggraf, in Berlin, was the first to recognise it as a metal of its own, in 1746.
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