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STRUCTURE OF RINGS WITH CERTAIN CONDITIONS ON ZERO DIVISORS HAZAR ABU-KHUZAM AND ADIL YAQUB Received 4 May 2004; Revised 17 September 2004; Accepted 24 July 2006 Let R be a ring such that every zero divisor x is expressible as a sum of a nilpotent element and a potent element of R : x = a + b, where a is nilpotent, b is potent, and ab = ba. We call such a ring a D∗ -ring. We give the structure of periodic D∗ -ring, weakly periodic D∗ -ring, Artinian D∗ -ring, semiperfect D∗ -ring, and other classes of D∗ -ring. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1.