| Compound Description | Tin is a natural element in the earth's crust. It is a soft, white, silvery metal that does not dissolve in water. It is present in brass, bronze, pewter, and some soldering materials. Tin metal is used to line cans for food, beverages, and aerosols. Tin can combine with other chemicals to form compounds. Combinations with chemicals like chlorine, sulfur, or oxygen are called inorganic tin compounds . These are used in toothpaste, perfumes, soaps, food additives and dyes. Tin also can combine with carbon to form organotin compounds . These compounds are used to make plastics, food packages, plastic pipes, pesticides, paints, and pest repellents. Tin metal, and inorganic and organic tin compounds can be found in the air, water, and soil near places where they are naturally present in the rocks, or where they are mined, manufactured, or used.White TIN is an almost silver-white, ductile, malleable, lustrous solid. mp 232 °C, bp: 2507 °C. Density: 7.3 g/cm3. Pure white tin becomes non-metallic powdery gray tin if held for a sustained period at temperatures less than 13 °C.Tin atom is a metal atom and a carbon group element atom. It has a role as a micronutrient.Tin is a metallic element with atomic symbol Sn, atomic number 50, and atomic weight 118.71.A trace element that is required in bone formation. It has the atomic symbol Sn, atomic number 50, and atomic weight 118.71. |
