Tin
An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
Money.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
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Tin Quotations
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
Charlie Sheen
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
George Harrison
What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?
Mickey Rivers
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
David Attenborough
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
L. Neil Smith
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
Ethel Waters
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Georg Brandes
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
Branford Marsalis
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T. E. Lawrence
Tin Translations
tin in Afrikaans is blik
tin in Danish is tin, blik
tin in Dutch is blikken
tin in Finnish is pelti
tin in Latin is plumbum album
tin in Norwegian is blikk
tin in Portuguese is estanho, lata
tin in Swedish is tenn, konservburk, bleckburk, burk
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