Zinc was named after a French gastroenterologist.
Zinc was named after the German word Zinke, meaning Spike..
Zinc was named by the Swiss alchemist Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus, 1493-1541), who coined the new Latin word zincum from antecedents that are not clear.
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Zinc and Zinc are metallic bonds.