zinc
noun
cinc
EN The hull of the Maurithuis, which sank off Guinea on its way back from China in 1609, was still lined with nearly 20,000 plates of almost pure zinc, showing that Chinese metallurgists were very far ahead of their European counterparts.
GL O casco do Maurithius, que naufragou fronte ás costa de Guinea de volta da China en 1609, estaba aínda tapizado de case 20.000 escamas de cinc case puro, testemuño do adianto da metalurxia chinesa fronte ó atraso de Europa na materia.
Fonte: C24 (1170)
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