History of Tin Timeline

Pewter,  for example, is mostly tin.

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Electro-plating is an important application of tin. It can be done through the electroplating of a small coat of tin around objects of steel, copper, aluminium etc. 

Moreover, the tinned pieces have countless applications such as in kitchen utensils, spray recipients and shaving foam, ink cans, electronic components, integrated circuits, clips, pins and many others.

Tinned objects can also be used with ornamental purposes.  As a pure metal, it can still be used in storage tanks for pharmaceutical chemical solutions, in capacitors electrodes, fuse-wires, ammunitions, tinned iron sheets to protect victuals, sweets or tobacco etc. Some of the tin organic compounds have several applications as fungicides and insecticides for the agriculture and still as wood, textile and paper preservers.

Alloys of tin  are also important, such as soft solder, pewter, bronze and phosphor bronze. The most important tin salt used is tin (II) chloride which is used as a reducing agent and as a mordant. Tin salts sprayed onto glass are used to produce electrically conductive coatings. Most window glass is made by floating molten glass on molten tin to produce a flat surface. Recently, a tin-niobium alloy that is superconductive at very low temperatures has attracted interest.

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The history of tin has always been closely connected with the history of war. Tin was an element, with copper, in the bronze weapons of B.C.

A proportion of tin, 8 to 14 per cent, went into gun-metal, of which all ordnance used to be made until the invention of the rifled steel barrel used in modern artillery.

The price of tin in modern times has fluctuated with periods of war and peace, rising to peaks in ,, ,, and -50.

Tin has been listed as one of the twenty-three metals and minerals vital in time of war. As an alloy it helps to form marine propeller blades, aircraft engines and gun-parts.

But it has other and more peaceful uses. About 7.5 pounds of tin go into the manufacture of the average car. Bronze, with a tin percentage of up to 33 per cent, is used for such things as reflectors and bearings.