tin
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- noun
- /tɪn/
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- Under the corrugated-tin roof, the straw-fragrant heat formed a room of its own, stifling and luxurious.
- copper and tin
- lead and tin
- nickel and tin
We then moved on to bronze, and bronze is copper and tin added together.
- We then moved on to bronze, and bronze is copper and tin added together.
- The other was disposed of in a shallow grave covered by earth, plywood and a sheet of tin.
- So quickly silver was combined with things like tin and lead to keep that silver metal strand thing down.
- For example in Cornwall, tin was very important because it was the one of the main components of bronze, which is an alloy of tin and copper.
- You get really high yields, but you have this trimethyl tin iodide leftover that is essentially weapons grade.
Examples
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The plumber used a sheet of tin to repair the roof because it is resistant to corrosion.
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It's built on top of what used to be a tin mine.
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The rain sounded loud beating on the tin roof of the car.
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The walls behind were sheathed with roofing tin to keep them from catching fire.
Fiction book (1997) -
Lott squinted in the sunlight reflecting off the tin roof of the shack in front of him.
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The old toolbox was made of tin and had rusted over the years from exposure to the elements.
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My grandfather taught me how to craft jewelry using tin and other soft metals for unique designs.
Idioms
Very nervous and unable to stay still because of worry or excitement
Compounds
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An area in New York where many popular songwriters and music publishers worked in the early 1900s
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Putting a thin layer of tin on metal to stop rust and make it look better
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White tin turns into grey powder at low temperatures and makes metal crumble
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A change in tin that makes it break easily and turn into grey powder in very cold weather
How Metallic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Tin for the metal comes from a very old German word for the same soft, silvery metal, and you can remember it because tin is the metal used with copper to make bronze, so the name points to that metal today.