9 sentences with 'tin'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tin and other words derived from it.
• « Needless to say, historical people had no idea why, when they took tin and copper, heated them and pounded them together on an anvil, they created something much harder and more durable than either of their starting metals. Some innovative blacksmith discovered this, and in the process gave rise to a number of new possibilities. »
• « Bronze depended on functioning trade networks: tin was only available in large quantities in the mines of what is now Afghanistan, so the collapse of long-distance trade made the manufacture of bronze impossible. »
• « "The great advantage of this face-to-face charity is that the help is personal and individualised," says Linda. "You can give precisely what people need, whether it's a tin of ham, clothes or a cot. »
• « These findings now indicate that alloying with tin was preceded in the East by alloying with arsenic almost a millennium earlier. Something similar must have happened with other minerals that can be combined with copper. »
• « Arsenical copper declined in favour of alloying copper with tin, possibly because of the poisonous effects of arsenic. It is likely that during smelting, the fumes caused cases of poisoning, so more innocuous compounds were sought. If so, this would be the first case of a "toxic cloud" in ancient times, and the resulting reactions. »
• « Pewter is a compound of tin and lead and is known as 'Brittany metal', because that is presumed to be its place of origin. Its value is that it can replace silver and costs much less. »