18 Facts About Tin

1.

Tin is soft enough to be cut with little force and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort.

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2.

Tin is a post-transition metal in group 14 of the periodic table of elements.

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3.

Tin is a soft, malleable, ductile and highly crystalline silvery-white metal.

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4.

Tin resists corrosion from water, but can be corroded by acids and alkalis.

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5.

Tin can be highly polished and is used as a protective coat for other metals, a protective oxide layer prevents further oxidation.

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6.

Tin has ten stable isotopes, the greatest number of any element.

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7.

Tin is among the easiest elements to detect and analyze by NMR spectroscopy which relies on molecular weight and its chemical shifts are referenced against.

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8.

Tin has 31 unstable isotopes, ranging in mass number from 99 to 139.

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9.

Tin chloride is the most important commercial tin halide.

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10.

Tin is often recovered from granules washed downstream in the past and deposited in valleys or the sea.

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11.

Tin is produced by carbothermic reduction of the oxide ore with carbon or coke.

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12.

International Tin Council was established in 1947 to control the price of tin.

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13.

In 1984, Association of Tin Producing Countries was created, with Australia, Bolivia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, and Zaire as members.

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14.

The International Tin Association estimated that global refined tin consumption will grow 7.

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15.

Tin has sometimes been used in coinage; it once formed a single-digit percentage of American and Canadian pennies.

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16.

Tin is used as a negative electrode in advanced Li-ion batteries.

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17.

Tin fluoride is added to some dental care products as stannous fluoride .

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18.

Tin is used as a target to create laser-induced plasmas that act as the light source for extreme ultraviolet lithography.

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