A brittle metallic element,
for humanity quite important.
Bluish white metallic shine,
for staying pure is no time.

It prephers oxidation
or even better sulfidation.
Four-hundred- twenty to liquify,
nine-hundret-seven to fly,

Quite pointy tips after resolidification,
Zinc is a German slang word creation.
As „Zinken“ describes a tip shape,
a mountain, a nose, just not a needle state.

Paracelsus is responsable for how it is named,
In Rajasthan metallic Zinc could be obtained.
Roughly two-thousand-fivehundred years in advance,
before Andreas Sigismund Marggraf got his chance.

Zinc can be molten with charcoal,
which is for brass forming the goal.
Therefore Zinc accompanies humanity,
since early metal production and jewelery.

The Kura-Araxes culture is the oldest known,
that made brass, as archeology has shown.
In the ancient Pakistan Zinc was already destilled,
conditions for higher Zinc amount in brass fullfilled.

Times long before a roman empire,
where Zinc had first time a mass desire.
Coinery needed a quite amount of Zinc share,
good thing this element is not rare.

In modern times Zinc is still of high importance,
as corrosion prevention for steel an instance,
Alloying for brass and cheap mass products,
as well as in batteries and semi-conducts.

It plays quite the role as reduction agent,
and for an organic chemist it is quite present.
Clemmenson Reduction or Reformatzki Reaction,
or the Simon-Smith dehalogenation.

Zinc has still a cultural impact,
it is important how it does react.
This is why it is essential for humans to exist,
in our body there is quite an impressive list.

Zinc is located at aminoacids and RNA,
it is mainly in our brain and helps transcribing DNA,
Three hundred enzymes, a thousand transcription factors,
immune system, proteins and new life actors,

As male semen is Zinc rich it is basically at our side,
and its importance is immanent and wide.
As a pure metal not usefull particullary,
it literally lifes up to diversity.

It is neither shy nor picky in reaction,
with Zinc you for sure find action,
Beauty and protection,
mandatory for life and reproduction.

Zinc shows us that there is a way,
to evolve, we do not have to stay,
it is a teamplayer, the first to act,
isolated it will eventually overract.