From Arsenic to Zirconium

TIN, Sn

NAPOLEON’S BRIGHT BUTTONS

In bronze ’n’ solders, pots ’n’ pans, soft tin’s been such a must.

In truth, did great Napoleon’s bright buttons turn to dust?

Helps micro-coat our “tins” of peas,

Thank ITO for LCDs!

Tops nature’s “League of Isotopes” with nine tins, all robust.

In bronze ’n’ solders, pots ’n’ pans, soft tin’s been such a must.

GROUP 14 METAL

Tin is the soft, silvery-white metal known since ancient times that helped shape early human history. The bronze produced when tin was alloyed in small amounts with copper transitioned human civilization from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age (around 3000 BCE). Pliable and easily worked, ...