Zinc was known by the Romans but was rarely used. It was recognized for the first time by its metal itself in India, in Zawar, Rajasthan, there is a zinc melting furnace with large amounts of zinc, which proves that large-scale refining took place between 1100 and 1500.
Large-scale refining of zinc was carried out in China in the 16th century. The ship of the East India Company sank off the coast of Sweden. In 1745, the cargo it carried was Chinese zinc. Analysis of the recovered ingots proved that they were almost pure metals.
In 1668, the Flemish metallurgist P. Moras de Respour extracted metallic zinc from zinc oxide, but Europe believed that zinc was discovered by the German chemist Andreas Marggraf in 1746, and it was indeed the first confirmation by him It is a new metal.