This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
The name given to sheets of iron which have been coated with zinc. True galvanized iron is first coated with tin by a galvanic process, and afterwards with zinc by immersing it in a bath of melted zinc containing sal ammoniac mixed with mineral matter.
 
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