zinc filingsnoun
Meaning & use
- 1809–See zinc n. Compounds.
- 1809
The concrete phosphoric acid, heated with zinc-filings, is decomposed.
, System Chemistry (ed. 2) vol. III. 305
zinc-filings
The concrete phosphoric acid, heated with zinc-filings, is decomposed.
Originally published as part of the entry for zinc, n.
zinc, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.