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Tin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Tin is a malleable, ductile, highly crystalline, silvery-white metal whose crystal structure causes a "tin cry" when a bar of tin is bent (caused by crystals breaking). |
 | | Tin is also used in solders for joining pipess or electrical/electronic circuits, in bearing alloys, in glass-making, and in a wide range of tin chemical applications. |
 | | Tin (anglo-Saxon, tin, Latin stannum) is one of the earliest metals known and was used as a component of bronze from antiquity. |
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