Zinc-air batteries have a lot going for them. They’re lightweight, compact and made of more sustainable, less flammable materials than other batteries. But they’re usually not rechargeable. A new ...

Zinc is known primarily as something you take for a cold. But there's much more to it. Let's have Steve and Irving 2.0 – now dwellers in the AI netherworld – swing into a Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From ...

Most of the disposable batteries you’ll come across are technically termed alkaline batteries. They work at high pH and typically use zinc as the charge carrier. Zinc is great because it’s very cheap, ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method for extracting zinc from waste fly ash produced by the incineration of solid waste. When done at proper industrial ...

Incineration of solid waste produces millions of tonnes of waste fly ash in Europe each year, that most commonly ends up in landfill. But this ash often contains significant amounts of precious metals ...