Zamak
A zinc casting-alloy family with about four percent aluminium and a little magnesium, with copper in some grades, as EN 12844 designates (ZnAl4, ZnAl4Cu1, ZnAl4Cu3).
Also called zinc die-cast alloy.
How it connects
Zamak is a kind of Non-ferrous metal.
Zamak is filed under Metal.
Other kinds of Non-ferrous metal: Aluminium, Aluminium alloy, Chromium, Copper, Copper alloy, Gold, Nickel, Pewter, Platinum, Silver, Tin, Titanium and Zinc.
In other taxonomies
- Zamak (TM)Getty AAT, 300395635nearly the same
- ZamakWikidata, Q145352nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Zamak
14 terms, Copper to Zamak
Record
- Also called
- zinc die-cast alloy
- Seen in the wild
- Zamac · zinc alloy
- Broader
- Non-ferrous metal
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); EN 1774; EN 12844; ASTM B86, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/zamakKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerNon-ferrous metalincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderNon-ferrous metaloutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Non-ferrous metaloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Metaloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Aluminiumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Aluminium alloyoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Chromiumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Copperoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Copper alloyoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Goldoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Nickeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Pewteroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Platinumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Silveroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Tinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Titaniumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Zincoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300395635 | Zamak (TM) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q145352 | Zamak | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Zamak via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=Zamak&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |