THE PROPERTIES OF ZINC.-Professor Farraday, as we are informed in the
London Athenaeum, has made this metal the subject of many interesting experiments. He
has discovered that it assumes new properties on being melted and poured into water, the
metal becoming very malleable and soft, losing none of it tenacity, but still capable of being
spun into the finest wire, pressed into any required form, or rolled into any thinness
desired. This promises to be a very useful discovery.