Word Finder - tin

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A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.

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An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.

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A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.

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muffin tin

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The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.

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Money

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Computer hardware.

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To place into a tin in order to preserve.

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To cover with tin.

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To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.

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Made of tin.

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Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.

She accepted the coffee and scowled into the tin cup.

It was a green tin, with a red spot on it.

Tin has been manufactured since 1892.

He accepted the tin of flapjacks she offered and jerked his head toward her wagon.

Another place for a tin can lid.

But Ozma soon conquered her, with the help of Glinda the Good, and after that I went to live with Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman.

Deposits of copper, tin, iron and tungsten have been discovered, and a variety of other mineral products (graphite, mica, spodumene, coal, petroleum, &c.).

It is usually found in association with tin and other minerals.

The Lucky Strike tin is a common one, but some containers sell for a whole lot more than that.

It roared on the tin roof and plunged off the eves, where the wind caught it and drove it across the yard in horizontal sheets.

Tin was known to exist in Australia from the first years of colonization.

In New South Wales lode tin occurs principally in the granite and stream tin under the basaltic country in the extreme north of the state, at Tenterfield, Emmaville, Tingha, and in other districts of New England.

The yield of tin in Victoria is very small, and until lately no fields of importance have been discovered; but towards the latter end of 1890 extensive deposits were reported to exist in the Gippsland district - at Omeo and Tarwin.

Tasmania during the last few years has attained the foremost position in the production of tin, the annual output now being about £363,000.

The total value of tin produced in Australia is nearly a million sterling per annum, and the total production to the end of 1905 was £22,500,000, of which Tasmania produced about 40%, New South Wales one-third, Queensland a little more than a fourth.

Iridosmine occurs commonly with gold or tin in alluvial drifts.

Molybdenum, in the form of molybdenite (sulphide of molybdenum), is found in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, associated in the parent state with tin and bismuth in quartz reefs.

Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, etc., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.

According to Michel and Kraft, one litre of cold saturated solution of tin crystals weighs 1827 grammes and contains 1333 grammes of SnCl 2.

Hence all tin crystals as kept in the laboratory give with water a turbid solution, which contains stannic in addition to stannous chloride.

We thus learn that the bronzes referred to above, although chemically uniform when solid, are not so when they begin to solidify, but that the liquid deposits crystals richer in copper than itself, and therefore that the residual liquid becomes richer in tin.

Why would someone who switched the bones take the cigarette tin?

Somebody switched the bones, stole the finger, and took the cigarette tin.

You couldn't bear to let loose of a ten dollar cigarette tin.

The principal items of export are wool, skins, tallow, frozen mutton, chilled beef, preserved meats, butter and other articles of pastoral produce, timber, wheat, flour and fruits, gold, silver, lead, copper, tin and other metals.

The descent from the summits of the range into the plain is somewhat less abrupt on the western than it is on the eastern side, and between the foot of the mountains and the Strait of Malacca the largest known alluvial deposits of tin are situated.

The tin occurs in the form of cassiterite, and is found chiefly in or near the crystalline rocks, especially the granite.

As stream tin it occurs abundantly in some of the alluvial deposits derived from the crystalline area, especially on the west coast.

Only two tin lodes are worked, however, and both are situated on the east coast, the one at Kuantan in Pahang, the other at Bandi in Trengganu territory.

Since 1890 the tin produced from these alluvial beds has supplied between 50% and 75% of the tin of the world.

This precipitate is insoluble in cold dilute acids, in ammonium sulphide, and in solutions of the caustic alkalis," a behaviour which distinguishes it from the yellow sulphides of arsenic and tin.

A good example may be made with two cylindrical tin cups; the bottoms form the membranes and the cups the mouthpieces.

Quicksilver and tin are found (the latter in small quantities) in Tuscany.

Later writers, Posidonius, Diodorus, Strabo and others, call them smallish islands off (Strabo says, some way off) the north-west coast of Spain, which contained tin mines, or, as Strabo says, tin and lead mines - though a passage in Diodorus derives the name rather from their nearness to the tin districts of north-west Spain.

While geographical knowledge of the west was still scanty and the secrets of the tin-trade were still successfully guarded by the seamen of Gades and others who dealt in the metal, the Greeks knew only that tin came to them by sea from the far west, and the idea of tin-producing islands easily arose.

Later, when the west was better explored, it was found that tin actually came from two regions, north-west Spain and Cornwall.

Instead, they became a third, ill-understood source of tin, conceived of as distinct from Spain or Britain.

The mining industry, for which the town was formerly also famous and which embraced tin, silver and cobalt, has now ceased.

Silks, wood-carvings, silver and jade ornaments, tin and copper wares, fruits and tobacco are the chief articles of the local trade.

One of the neighbouring mines, the Proprietary, is the richest in the world; gold is associated with the silver; large quantities of lead, good copper lodes, zinc and tin are also found.

Among the city's manufactures are oxide of tin and other chemicals, iron and steel, leather goods, automobiles and bicycles, electrical and telephone supplies, butted tubing, gas engines, screws and bolts, silk, lace and hosiery.

Manufacturing industry is confined to a few articles and commodities, such as cement, tea, tin cans (for oil), cotton goods, oil refineries, tobacco factories, flour-mills, silk-winding mills (especially at Shusha and Jebrail in the south of Elisavetpol), distilleries and breweries.

It is placed in tin canisters of about 31 to 5 in.

Other exports are tin and copper, granite, serpentine, vegetables and china clay.

In 1663 Ienzance was constituted a coinage town for tin.

Subsequently electrum (an alloy of gold and silver) disappeared as a specific metal, and tin was ascribed to Jupiter instead, the sign of mercury becoming common to the metal and the planet.

Thus in the Speculum Naturale of Vincent of Beauvais (c. 1250) it is said that there are four spirits - mercury, sulphur, arsenic and sal ammoniac - and six bodies - gold, silver, copper, tin, lead and iron.

Ruthenium in bulk resembles platinum in its general appearance, and has been obtained crystalline by heating an alloy of ruthenium and tin in a current of hydrochloric acid gas.

From an analogy instituted between the healthy human being and gold, the most perfect of the metals, silver, mercury, copper, iron, lead and tin, were regarded in the light of lepers that required to be healed.

Gold, the most perfect metal, had the symbol of the Sun, 0; silver, the semiperfect metal, had the symbol of the Moon, 0j; copper, iron and antimony, the imperfect metals of the gold class, had the symbols of Venus Mars and the Earth tin and lead, the imperfect metals of the silver class, had the symbols of Jupiter 94, and Saturn h; while mercury, the imperfect metal of both the gold and silver class, had the symbol of the planet,.