Examples of tin
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The materials were lead, titanium, solder wire and tin.
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But he also reported to his parents that the price of tin was falling.
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In 1810, tin was discovered to be the only metal that could preserve food.
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We had packed all good crockery etc. away and used all tin utensils.
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These are made out of roomy biscuit tins (lined with felt), with the lid ajar.
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As methods of canning became cheaper in the 1850s, world demand for tin-plate also increased.
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A change in diet and climate, with fresh or even tinned fruit and green vegetables normally effected a cure.
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They carried only two tins of food each and toothbrushes.
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Measurements of laser driven spallation in tin and zinc using an optically recording velocity inter ferometer system.
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British import of foreign tin jumped from 4,000 tons to 86,600 tons from the 1840s to the 1870s.
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The drums are normally referred to in songs as 'pans' and 'tin cans', of which the principle characteristic is the volume of sound produced.
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The first ground coffee was not sealed in a tin can until 1878, and the key method for opening cans was not devised until 1895.
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A high wire fence, with tin sheets along its strands, enclosed the entire western exposure of the camp.
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The majority of the manufacturing industries, plantations, tin reserves, and population are concentrated in the west.
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The cleansing process allowed the tin oxide gas sensor to stabilise.
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Food-canning techniques were immediately developed and alluvial tin, with its purity, was identified as the most suitable tin-plate for canning.
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I couldn't afford a tin of paint, have a taxi anywhere or go to a show.
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Not having a house with a tin roof is the reference category.
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One gets tired of practically all tinned foods.
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The method consists, briefly, in the liberation of pupae in tubs or large tins in the field.
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The unsieved par t of the clay is mixed with water in a large tin.
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past simple and past participle of overwhelm
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