| A Z-shaped steel or sheet metal strip used for light framing or furring.
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| see Wall Z Tie.
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| A numerical coefficient used in the design of earthquake forces and that is dependent upon site location.
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| An impure oxide of cobalt used as a blue ceramic coloring.
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| An implement used for splitting and installing slates; a kind of hatchet with a sharp point on the head for perforating the slate to receive a nail or pin.
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| One of the axes in a three-dimensional system, that is not the x- or y-axis.
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| The mottled or striped wood of several trees, such as various leguminous African timber trees with pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black.
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| The highest or culminating point.
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| Trade name for dry ice. See DRY ICE.
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| A concrete mixed with so little water that it has a slump of zero when tested.
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| A closed or small chamber; a room over a church porch where documents were kept.
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| A Z-formed metal channel for mechanically attaching gypsum board and insulation material on masonry walls.
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| A stepped pyramid, as in the sacred architecture of Western Asia in antiquity.
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| Making short and sharp turns; in architecture, especially in the moldings in arched door heads of Romanesque style.
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| Metal priming pigment with important rust-inhibitive properties; Zinc Yellow.
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| Finely divided zinc metal, gray in color; used primarily in metal primers.
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| A compound of zinc used as a white pigment in many types of paint.
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| Treatment used on steel to improve adhesion of coatings.
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| Inorganic zinc coating.
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| Compound of zinc used as white pigment in paints.
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| Commercial zinc chromate pigment.
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| see Leaded Zinc.
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| 1. A bluish white crystalline metallic element of low to intermediate hardness that is ductile when pure but in the commercial form is brittle at ordinary temperatures and becomes ductile on slight heating. 2. Zinc, as galvanizing, is widely used as a protective coating for iron and steel. 3. Zinc is used extensively as paint pigment.
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| Containing or resembling zinc.
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| Relating to or resembling zinc
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| In gypsumboard bundles, a reinforcement paper strip to facilitate the removal of end bundling tapes.
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| see Paper Rollers.
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| A vitreous ceramic whiteware for technical application in which zircon (ZrO2SiO2) is the essential crystalline phase.
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| 1. In space heating or air conditioning, a specific area in a building that is kept at the same temperature. 2. A defined area of land that is limited in use to some particular purpose, such as residential, commercial, or industrial; see Zoning, 2.
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| 1. Government regulation of the use of privately owned land. 2. The official designation of parts of a municipality or other governmental territory to be used only for certain specified land uses.
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