First off, thanks again for continued help on this. There are a few of you guys on here that are lifesavers, especially since the tutor center isn't open when I'm not at work / school. Anyways, so the nitrate stays isolated, and it sounds like the zinc does too, so really I just need to figure out what / how to combine / react the (OH)22- and the H3O+. So if the H3O+ donates a hydrogen, it becomes H2O, and one of the hydroxides also becomes H2O, leaving me with a single hydroxide, but I have a feeling my logic is wrong...
Ok, so I'm looking at your next post you just made... So the metal does end up associating with an anion, in this case O... so that would give me ZnO + 2 H2O... Holy crap, is that correct? LOL, if so, I don't know why that was so hard for me...