Tin - Periodic Table of Videos
How did Tin help make better swords? And why is a tin can called a tin can? More links in description below ↓↓↓ Support Periodic Videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/periodicvideos...
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So here we have tin, but this is a different sample of tin from what people might be used to because most people see tin in foil, or they think it is tin foil that they use to wrap up the chicken, mostly that is aluminium foil. Tin has the symbol Sn because it comes from the Latin word stannum which means tin and in fact if you go to Devon in the southwest of England you will find that some of the towns there are called stannary towns because that’s where they used to mine and trade in tin. Tin has a very old role in trade and in technology. Bronze which people used in the old days was an alloy of tin and copper which gave better swords than copper, so if you were fighting with somebody who had a copper sword and you had a bronze one, you won, at lea...
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So here we have tin, but this is a different sample of tin from what people might be used to because most people see tin in foil, or they think it is tin foil that they use to wrap up the chicken, mostly that is aluminium foil. Tin has the symbol Sn because it comes from the Latin word stannum which means tin and in fact if you go to Devon in the southwest of England you will find that some of the towns there are called stannary towns because that’s where they used to mine and trade in tin. Tin has a very old role in trade and in technology. Bronze which people used in the old days was an alloy of tin and copper which gave better swords than copper, so if you were fighting with somebody who had a copper sword and you had a bronze one, you won, at lea...
