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Definition of Tin
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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. Related Definitions:
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Tin Quotations
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 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 first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. Mary Antin 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 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 |
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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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