1 Explain the meaning of various chemical formulas (empirical, molecular, and structural formulas). 2  Calculate weight and mole percentages from a formula.  Derive chemical formulas from a given set of information.
A: Zinc belongs to the family of elements found in Group 12. Some other elements in this family are cadmium and mercury. These three elements are metals, but mercury is a metal that is liquid at room temperature, while zinc and cadmium are solids at room temperature.
1 Zinc Ore Zinc is a shiny, bluish-white metal. Zinc metal is never found pure in nature. Zinc minerals are generally associated with other metal minerals, the most common associations in ores being zinc-lead, lead-zinc, zinc-copper, copper-zinc, zinc-silver, or zinc only.