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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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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Tin is a post-transition metal in group 14 of the periodic table of elements.
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Tin is a soft, malleable, ductile and highly crystalline silvery-white metal.
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Tin resists corrosion from water, but can be corroded by acids and alkalis.
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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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Tin has ten stable isotopes, the greatest number of any element.
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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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Tin has 31 unstable isotopes, ranging in mass number from 99 to 139.
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Tin chloride is the most important commercial tin halide.
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Tin is often recovered from granules washed downstream in the past and deposited in valleys or the sea.
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Tin is produced by carbothermic reduction of the oxide ore with carbon or coke.
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International Tin Council was established in 1947 to control the price of tin.
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The International Tin Association estimated that global refined tin consumption will grow 7.
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Tin has sometimes been used in coinage; it once formed a single-digit percentage of American and Canadian pennies.
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Tin is used as a negative electrode in advanced Li-ion batteries.
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Tin fluoride is added to some dental care products as stannous fluoride .
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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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