What is made of tin besides soda cans?
2007-05-04 12:15:55 · 10 answers · asked by monkerdoodles 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Besides Soda cans!! Please help!
2007-05-04 12:21:58 · update #1
Soda cans aren't made of Tin believe it or not,since Tin is toxic.Soda cans are made mostly from Aluminum extracted from Bauxite deposits. The Tin man is made from Tin. You know The Tin man from the Wizard of OZ ? Follow the Yellow Brik road...
But, soldering wire for electronics can have Tin added to it. It's actually Tin and Lead alloy. The symbol for Tin is; Sn on the Periodic Table of Elements.
Copper and Tin make the alloy Bronze.
2007-05-04 14:17:33 · answer #1 · answered by sandwreckoner 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
At one time cookie cutters, organ pipes and children's toys were made from sheet tin or tin alloy, as it was so soft that simple tools could be used to work it. We'd still be using it a great deal, except we now have plastics and cheap aluminum sheeting. I don't think the old 'tin cans' were all tin, but were instead iron {or steel?} with a tin coating. And bronze isn't bronze without some copper and some tin.
Today patterned films of tin compounds on glass form the transparent conductors required in all 'liquid crystal' electronic displays. Though somewhat hazardous, 60 percent tin/ 40 percent lead alloy solder is favored for electronics use since it melts at a conveniently low temperature.
2007-05-04 15:14:58 · answer #2 · answered by fhw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now days, solder is mostly tin, it used to be a mixture of lead and tin, but because of toxicity lead is not used so much now. Pewter contains tin, but pewter is not as common not as it once was As has already been said bronze usually contains tin.
Tin is a fairly expensive metal and therefore it is not used if something cheaper can replace it. For example "tin" cans were originally tin plated steel, and some still are, but now some use other coatings.
2007-05-04 12:44:36 · answer #3 · answered by tinkertailorcandlestickmaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tin cans arent made of tin, they only have an inner coating of tin. steel is prone to corrosion than tin so steel cans need an inner coating of tin as protection. Often only the top and bottom of the can have this now.
2016-05-20 22:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an actor in the Wizard of Oz, I think, and he acted the part of the Tin Man. Apparently they used aluminim powder to make his face match the theme and Jed Clampet couldn't handle the part, but the Tin Man did wear a tin suit.
2007-05-04 12:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by RT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tin resists corrosion and is used as a protective coating on other metals. Tin cans are probably the most familiar example of this application. A tin can is actually made from steel. A thin layer of tin is applied to the inside and outside of the can to keep the steel from rusting. Once widely used, tin cans have largely been replaced with plastic and aluminum containers.
Tin is used in the Pilkington process to produce window glass. In the Pilkington process, molten glass is poured onto a pool of molten tin. The glass floats on the surface of the tin and cools, forming solid glass with flat, parallel surfaces. Most of the window glass produced today is made this way.
Tin is used to form many useful alloys. Bronze is an alloy of tin and copper. Tin and lead are alloyed to make pewter and solder. An alloy of tin and niobium is used to make superconductive wire. Type metal, fusible metal, bell metal and Babbitt metal are other examples of tin alloys.
Tin salts can be sprayed onto glass to make electrically conductive coatings. These can then be used to make panel lighting and frost-free windshields. Stannous fluoride (SnF2) is used in some types of toothpaste.
...from the USGS Minerals information website:
Tin is one of the earliest metals known and used. Because of its hardening effect on copper, tin was used in bronze implements as early as 3,500 B.C., although the pure metal was not used until about 600 B.C. About 35 countries mine tin throughout the world. Nearly every continent has an important tin-mining country.
Tin is a relatively scarce element with an abundance in the earth's crust of about 2 parts per million (ppm), compared with 94 ppm for zinc, 63 ppm for copper, and 12 ppm for lead. Most of the world's tin is produced from placer deposits; at least one-half comes from Southeast Asia.
The only mineral of commercial importance as a source of tin is cassiterite (SnO2), although small quantities of tin are recovered from complex sulfides such as stanite, cylindrite, frankeite, canfieldite, and teallite.
Most tin is used as a protective coating or as an alloy with other metals such as lead or zinc. Tin is used in coatings for steel containers, in solders for joining pipes or electrical/electronic circuits, in bearing alloys, in glass-making, and in a wide range of tin chemical applications. Secondary, or scrap, tin is an important source of the tin supply.
2007-05-04 17:06:30 · answer #6 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bronze, an alloy of copper. "Tin cans" are made of steel these days.
2007-05-04 12:19:38 · answer #7 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most soda cans you see are aluminum. Food cans, perhaps.
2007-05-04 12:19:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a tin can, tin foil, the tin man....
2007-05-04 14:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by guitarist_147 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think tin foil (aluminum foil) is made of tin.
2007-05-04 12:43:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋