Tin
Tin is more that just tin like a Tin man
basic information
symbol: Sn
atomic number: 50
atomic weight : 118.710
group : 14
period: 5
color: silvery lustrous grey
classfication : metallic
history
metal workers found it to soft, when mixed with copper it give the alloy bronze and the discover is unknown
uses
- coat metals
- used as a reducing agent
- tin salts srayed onto glass are used to produce electrically
- Also on lighting and for frost free wind shields
- window glass is made by floating molten glass on molten tin
description
- its metal
- Malleable
- somewhat distilled
- Tin disease
- tin plague
- highly crystaline sturcture
- the devils work
- a cubic structure
- tin resist diostiled,water,sea,sort of tap water
- attacked by strong acids
biology (in humans)
- small quanites in rats
- used as bactericides and fungicides
- sever problems to local wildlife
geology (in the universe)
- tin is never found as the free element
- most of the worlds supply comes from malaya , bolivia, indonisa, zair, thailand and nigeria
- new england was famous for its tin mines
properties
- density of solids 7310kg m3
- molar volume 16.29 cm3
- Electrical resistvity 11.5*10-8 Ω m; or mΩ cm