It is often used to carve figurines. A metal used mostly in jet engines, airframes and space and missile applications. In powdered form I is used as a white pigment for paints, paper, plastics, rubber and other materials. Trona is mined mainly in Wyoming. Used as protective coating on steel, as die casting, as an alloying metal with copper to make brass, and as chemical compounds in rubber and paint.
Zinc oxide is used in medicine, paints, vulcanizing rubber and sunblock lotions.