Tin is a great metal, and has a great resistance to corrosion. It is sometimes found in the native state!
It is a shiny white metal, and alloyed with copper makes bronze.
Tributyl tin is used as an anti-fouling paint for yacht hulls, but in this form it is lethal to much oceanic life.
Probably the biggest uses for tin, are to coat steel cans with a fine coat of tin; and combined with lead it is used as solder.
To make tin cans.
Tin is commonly used for making beverage cans and bakeware.
Tin is used for boxes to cover and protect other metals such as bronze and copper.
There are two major uses for it. It is used to coat food cans, to keep them from rusting. Tin has low toxicity, so you can safely store food in tin-plated steel cans. It is also used to make solder, which is used to join electrical components into circuits.
Tin is only used to make toy cars.Pure tin is an expensive metal and is used just to coat other metals to prevent corrision.
One of the earliest uses was as a static engine to pump water out of tin mines in Devon and Cornwall. One of the earlies pioneers was a man Called Trevithik (sp?).
The primary difference between tin plate and silver plate is in what they are made of and their application. Tin plate is usually applied via electroplating and silver plate is applied via Tollen's reagent.
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Some uses of Tin:a wide variety of useful alloys,in manufacturing of window glasses,in pipe organs,superconducting magnets,as a solder joining pipes or electric circuits,in fungicides, pesticides, algaecides, wood preservatives, antifouling agents.
SnCl2 is tin chloride. You may be taught that "ionic naming" uses oxidation number in which case the name is tin(II) chloride.
Solder Also Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally 85-99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead.
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