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n a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores n the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the …
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- n a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores n the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin n a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest n a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser