| Tin is a chemical element located in the period table. | | | | Because Tin bonds easily, it has been used to coat |
| The symbol for Tin is Sn which is derived from Tin's | | | | lead, zinc and steel in order to prevent corrosion. |
| Latin name, stannum. The atomic number for Tin is | | | | Containers fashioned from steel plated with Tin are |
| 50. Tin is a soft, malleable metal that resists corrosion | | | | used widely for preserving food, which forms a large |
| well and can be found in a number of alloys. | | | | part of the metallic tin market. This is why cans are |
| History: | | | | often called 'Tin cans', even when created from steel. |
| Tin is one of the earliest known metals, and has been | | | | There is always at least a small amount of tin |
| used in the past as a component of bronze. As early | | | | incorporated into the metal. |
| as 3,500 BC, Tin was used in bronze implements | | | | Other important tin alloys include bronze, Babbitt |
| because if its hardening effect on copper. The mining | | | | metal, die casting alloy, phosphor bronze, pewter, |
| of Tin is believed to have begun around Classical | | | | soft solder, bell metal and White metal. Many of the |
| times, in Cornwall and Devon. With the civilizations of | | | | metal pipes found in a pipe organ are created with a |
| the Mediterranean, a thriving Tin trade was allowed | | | | tin and lead alloy. Spotted metal, used in the pipes, is |
| to develop. After 4000 years of Tin mining in | | | | created when a 50%/50% alloy cools, and a mottled |
| Cornwall, the last Cornish Tin Mine was closed in 1998. | | | | or spotted effect is created when the lead cools |
| Although the American Heritage Dictionary speculates | | | | slightly faster than the Tin. The amount of tin |
| that the word Tin was borrowed from a pre-Indo | | | | present in organ pipes can define the pipe tone, as |
| European language, no one is exactly sure where the | | | | Tin is one of the most tonally resonant of all metal |
| word Tin originated. | | | | types. |
| The word Tin is often used improperly in modern | | | | Glass for windows is made using what is often called |
| times, as people often use it as a generic phrase for | | | | the Pilkington process, and entails floating molten hot |
| any sort of metal that is silver in color and available in | | | | glass atop molten hot tin, creating what is known as |
| thin sheets. Objects like tin foil and tin cans are | | | | float glass, in order to create a perfectly flat surface. |
| actually made out of steel or aluminum, though there | | | | Tin is also commonly used in solders, especially in |
| is a thin layer of tin in cans in an attempt to prevent | | | | joining pipes, electric circuits, bearing alloys, glass |
| rusting. | | | | making, and a wide variety of other applications. |
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