Tin

Tin is a chemical element; it has the symbol Sn () and atomic number 50. A metallic-gray metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, a bar of tin makes a sound, the so-called "tin cry", as a result of twinning in tin crystals.

deterioration of tin objects at low temperatures

thumb|A worker Pickling (metal)|pickling tin in a tin factory in South Wales during World War I thumb|A worker removes tin plates from an annealing stand in a South Wales factory during World War I Tinplate consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap mild steel, the backing metal (known as "") was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin cans.

right|thumb|Tin layer on the inside of a tin can Tinning is the process of thinly coating sheets of wrought iron or steel with tin, and the resulting product is known as tinplate. The term is also widely used for the different process of coating a metal with solder before soldering.

foil wrap made of tin

chemical compound

one of either 10 stable, naturally-occurring isotopes of tin or artificial, unstable isotopes of tin

thumb|A molybdomancy kit includes a set of shaped lead ingots, to be melted over a candle flame in a spoon. thumb|A piece of molten lead after immersion in cold water

thumb|HRTEM image of sample showing hexagonal lattice. The inset on the bottom left shows the EDAX spectrum from the same spot. Carbon and copper peaks arises from the TEM grid used. The middle inset shows large area TEM of stanene flake with layers. Stanene is a topological insulator, theoretically predicted by Shoucheng Zhang's group at Stanford, which may display dissipationless currents at its edges near room temperature. It is composed of tin atoms arranged in a single layer, in a manner similar to graphene. Stanene got its name by combining stannum (the Latin name for tin) with the suffi

sound made by bending tin