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Instead, Mervi, his face smeared with sunscreen, a straw hat pulled low over his ears, sat perched on an oversize towel, his zinc-coated nose stuck in a self-help book.
Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010
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Judging from the numbers who continue to peer over the zinc-coated steel fence and beg for a quick look inside, such overshadowing may be inevitable.
Why Hadid's MAXXI Works Francis X. Rocca 2010
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The most famous of them is a PCGS graded AU-58 1943 cent, struck in copper rather than zinc-coated steel, which sold for $218,500.
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Judging from the numbers who continue to peer over the zinc-coated steel fence and beg for a quick look inside, such overshadowing may be inevitable.
Why Hadid's MAXXI Works Francis X. Rocca 2010
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Common zinc-coated steel cents will stick to a magnet but the handful of known 1943-dated Lincoln cents mistakenly struck in bronze in this case, an alloy of 95 percent copper and 5 percent tin and zinc will not.
Previously Unaccounted 1943-S Bronze Cent Acquired by Rare Coin Wholesalers : Coin Collecting News 2009
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The zinc-coated steel metallic composition was used in 1943 to conserve copper that was needed for U.S. efforts in World War II.
Previously Unaccounted 1943-S Bronze Cent Acquired by Rare Coin Wholesalers : Coin Collecting News 2009
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They climbed zinc-coated mesh walls, paced, leaped, were never still.
Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981
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The wire used in this line is No. 9 iron, zinc-coated, weighing three hundred and fifty pounds to the mile, and the total weight used between
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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Sheet-zinc is found in nearly every dwelling in the United States, and zinc-coated or "galvanized" iron has become a domestic necessity.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Two of the most recent alterations were the switch to zinc-coated steel in 1943, caused by the wartime shortage of copper, and the switch to zinc with copper plating in 1982, a response to rising commodity prices.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID L. GANZ 2011
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