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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>German metallurgist [[Andreas Libavius]] received a quantity of what he called "calay" (from the Malay or Hindi word for tin) originating from [[Malabar Coast|Malabar]] off a cargo ship captured from the Portuguese in the year 1596. Libavius described the properties of the sample, which may have been zinc. Zinc was regularly imported to Europe from the Orient in the 17th and early 18th centuries, but was at times very expensive.</div>FuzzyBot