Zinc is element 30, a transition metal of the d block, in group 12, period 4. Its ground-state configuration is [Ar] 3d10 4s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2.
Zinc has been known since antiquity, so no discovery is credited for it.
Name origin: the German Zink.
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