Tin

material · 3300 BC · Stone Age

A metal added to copper to make bronze.

Where it is used

• Bronze — is material for. Tin makes bronze hard.
• Solder — is material for. Tin solder.
• Tin can — is material for. Tinplate.
• Float glass — is used in. Glass spreads out over molten tin.
• Capacitor — is material for. The plates are made of tin foil.
• Ice cream maker — is material for. Inside is a tin cylinder.
• Egg beater — is material for. The whisk is tinned sheet metal.
• Phonograph — is material for. The recording is on tin foil.
• Horn — is material for. Tinplate.
• Linotype — is used in. A line is cast from type metal (lead, tin, antimony).
• First aid kit — is material for. A tin box.
• Fuse — is material for. The fuse element is tin or lead.
• Model railway — is material for. The first models were tinplate.

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