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What are facts about tin?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The transformation from white tin to gray tin was believed to cause the disintegration of soldiers' buttons in Napoleon's Russian Campaign in 1812.

Tin foils were used as wrapping in the old days, but were later replaced by aluminum.
Tin is atom number 50, so it's a very heavy atom. It's in group 14, so it doesn't react very easily with other elements. It's a soft silvery-white metal, found mostly in China and Malaysia. China produces about 130 million kg of tin every year, but it's not so common. Tin does not occur naturally by itself, and must be extracted from a base compound, usually cassiterite (SnO2). Tin is mostly used to make solder.

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