What is solder made up of?

Answer 1

Tin and Lead

There are many different metals in solder. Some of the metal an individual may find in solder are: lead, tin, copper, and aluminum.
answ2. Solders are still made of alloys of tin and lead, and with the addition of other metals to provide particular performance. Some solders contain no lead, and there exist solders of SnZn for soldering aluminum. Have a look at Solder in wikipedia.org.

There are probably no countries which still allow lead containing solders for potable water use, or for food cans.

Rosin cored solders are first made as a chunky billet several cm in diameter, with holes drilled through it to contain the rosin. This is then passed through standard wire drawing processes to produce the familiar wire form solder for electronics.

Lead pipe is nowadays seldom used in Plumbing applications.

A1. Usually tin and solder, but not so much lead anymore, as it is poisonous.
answ2. Solders are still made of alloys of tin and lead, and with the addition of other metals to provide particular performance. Some solders contain no lead, and there exist solders of SnZn for soldering aluminum. Have a look at Solder in wikipedia.org.

There are probably no countries which still allow lead containing solders for potable water use, or for food cans.

Rosin cored solders are first made as a chunky billet several cm in diameter, with holes drilled through it to contain the rosin. This is then passed through standard wire drawing processes to produce the familiar wire form solder for electronics.

Lead pipe is nowadays seldom used in plumbing applications.

A1. Usually tin and solder, but not so much lead anymore, as it is poisonous.
There are a few different types of solder, for different applications, but common electrical solder may contain lead, antimony and tin. This can also appear as 'flux cored solder' where a wax-like acidic chemical (sorry, don't know exactly what it is), which has the ability to cause the molten solder to bond to other metals, is inside a tube of solder.

Without flux, it is extremely difficult to make the solder stick to other metals. Baker's Soldering Fluid is an age-old flux made from hydrochloric acid and zinc chloride in liquid form which is used to etch the surface of the metal to be soldered, and allows the use of un-cored solder.
Soldering wire is made from an alloy of tin and lead. Typically, it is 60% tin, and 40% lead.
Soft solder is made of an alloy of tin and lead.

Hard solders (for jewelry work) a usually made mainly our of the metal being worked (e.g. silver)

Answer 2

Solder can be made up of several different alloys. The most common are tin-lead and tin-silver-copper based alloys. Lead based solders are limited in use are their restriction by the European Union Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) and Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS).

Answer 3

There are two main types of flux:

• general purpose, made of an aggressive acid based material
• electronics grade, made of rosins (e.g. tree sap, synthetic resin)

Never use a general purpose flux on electronics, it will cause delayed corrosion and eventual circuit failure.

Answer 4

¾ Lead--free solders are comprised mostly of Tin,

chemical symbol (Sn) from the Latin root word

Stannum, plus elements like Antimony (Sb),

Silver (Ag) Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni) and others.

Answer 5

Solder is made out of a couple different metals. It used to be made of tin and lead, but due to the negative health effects of lead, many are made with tin and other metals like silver.

Answer 6

soldering is meade by the chemical element called lead

Answer 7

Tin and lead, usually the alloy is 40% tin 60% lead.

Answer 8

Tin and Lead