Zinc oxide is extremely versatile, mainly used in rubber, plastics, paint, petrochemicals, glass, ceramics, pigments, batteries, cement, medicine and feed and other industries, but also used in the camera and electrostatic compounding spaceship paint, manufacturing fireworks and smoke bombs, ammonium nitrate explosives and even cigarette filters and other aspects. Let's take a look below.

Zinc oxide

I. Paint and coating industry: the main application of its coloring power, covering power and anti-corrosion, luminescence and other roles. Commonly used to produce white paint and magnetic paint. Zinc oxide is slightly alkaline, with trace free fatty acids to generate zinc soap, so that the paint film is flexible, strong, to prevent metal oxidation.

Second, the rubber industry: in the lead-zinc mining equipment rubber vulcanization process, zinc oxide can improve the physical properties of vulcanized rubber, enhance the activity of the accelerator, shorten the vulcanization time, improve the rubber abrasion resistance and tensile mechanical properties. Secondly, it is used as a reinforcing agent and coloring agent for rubber, and can also be used as a vulcanizing agent for neoprene rubber and a matching agent to increase thermal conductivity.

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Third, the energy band gap and exciton binding energy of zinc oxide is large, high transparency, excellent room temperature light-emitting properties, in the semiconductor field of liquid crystal displays, thin film transistors, light-emitting diodes, and other products have applications. In addition, microparticles of zinc oxide are beginning to play a role in related fields as a nanomaterial.