Zinc

Zinc was a metal found in the Realms.
==Properties==
Zinc weighed per . Prior to the Time of Troubles, zinc required some progress on a psionicist's part before it could be synthesized through molecular rearrangement. The metal melted at 420 degrees Celsius (788 degrees Fahrenheit).
It had such metaphysical properties that a properly calibrated tuning fork could be used to send a planar traveler to the Elemental Plane of Earth, and to associated planes.
==Applications==
At least two known alloys of copper and zinc were considered brass: red brass with 20% zinc, and yellow brass with 30% zinc. It was also used widely by apothecaries.
Zinc found much use in the making of material components. The object needed for Bigby's clenched fist was made of an alloy of copper and zinc, as was the one for Mordenkainen's sword. Pure zinc was instead used for magic mirror.
==History==
Zinc was sold at Radman, the enclave of Karsus, at 7 gp for a brick weighing . After the fall of Netheril, Anauria's best forges in Anauril were plagued by a lack of the metal; Asram, on the other hand, found its supply in secret places in the Great Sand Sea. By the late mid-14 century DR, it was available through Aurora's Emporium, which sold a square as a material component for 1 sp.
In the 14 century DR, zinc was smelted at King's Reach in the Vast. Sembian licenses were sometimes made of zinc.
Zinc's use in the fashioning of brass was also known to the lacerials and oscray of Malatra. Other alloys, called make-metals, were made of zinc. Another zinc alloy was halduthra.
==Notable Mines==
The most important ore of zinc was sphalerite, a yellow-brown, hard yet brittle ore weighing about 250 pounds per cubic foot (4 grams per cubic centimeter).
The mines at the Gnoll Peaks north of Hillmarch provided a modest amount of zinc.
It was mined in Dis, within the Nine Hells.
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