That sheet of zinc over wood, often odorous, was a place of drudgery to which women were often unhappily relegated, and into which dirty dishes and slops were piled.
For the Riverside Museum, Hadid produced an enormous shed of glass and zinc, which meanders across the land in three large bends, like a giant stylized S. The roof consists of irregular silver waves, as if a sheet of zinc had been bunched up in concertina folds.
The round table that sits in the entry hall she found broken in the house, but a local furniture maker refurbished it and covered the top with sheets of zinc punctuated by rivets.
In the earlier issues of the reports, some data visualisation of materials used gives figures for utilities and equipment such as cubic feet of gas, tons of twine, sheets of zinc and telegraph rolls, accompanied by illustrations of the different items.
Powdered zinc is used in this way in alkaline batteries and sheets of zinc metal form the cases for and act as anodes in zinc carbon batteries.
A few meters away is a little pond fenced in by sheets of zinc, where, from January until Holy Week (essentially the Colombian equivalent of easter), they raise tilapia to sell.
"There were sheets of zinc flying around all over the place.
They were constructed out of sheets of zinc-plated steel that had been laser-cut into curling forms that called to mind a Spirograph set, and then molded by hand into a mass of pulsating lacy spheres.
For that reason, microstructure and phase evolution during and after typical heat treatment, prior to hot sheet metal forming, of zinc and zinc based coatings have been investigated by glow discharge emission spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy with EDX analysis, X-ray diffraction and nanoindentation.
Site −13, however, is located in a beta-sheet of the zinc finger domain that plays a significant role in DNA recognition (Dhanasekaran et al. 2006, 2007), and which would be expected to affect binding preferences even in the absence of phylogenic data.
Other differences can be seen in the physical structures of the houses with Korogocho having mostly mud-walled houses with zinc sheet roofing and mud flooring, while in Viwandani, the walls and roofs are made of zinc sheets and floors are cemented.
