Tin - Periodic Table of Videos

[TheItalianPerson]

i thought tin rusts?

[Trillios]

@TheItalianPerson nope lead i belive does

[stevenmorookian16]

@Trillios Nope lead and tin both oxidizes, but the word rust is used to describe iron oxide.

[Trillios]

@stevenmorookian16 Yeah i know, do for some people saying that tin "rusts" is well simpler, but im just wondering since back in the middle ages knight armour used to be dipped in tin after completion for "rust proofing" (i know the correct term is oxidizing"

[nerdalert226]

hmmmmmmmm crazy hair one of the advantages of being a scientist

[pyrioni]

how quickly will tin oxidize?

[etraise2]

why is foil no longer tin

[Desmaad]

Tin is prone to "tin pest", i.e. a tendency to turn to powder below a certain temperature. This is why organ pipes contain lead, otherwise the larger ones would collapse during winter.

[joevalu]

i hate how brits say aluminum... it sounds like alu-mini-um...there is no extra i...i mean for god sake you people invented the language..learn how to speak it

[MindCrazedBanjo]

@joevalu I hate how americans say "asshole" I mean....everyone knows your "arseholes"

[talshiarr]

@joevalu Please stop embarrassing the rest of us. Please.

[TheDexta007]

@joevalu Except it is spelt Aluminium in English which does happen to be the people who invented it. Not your stupid American pronunciation Al-oooo-min-um

[mdma4life]

@joevalu

Aluminium is the correct pronunciation.

American industries changed the pronunciation to Aluminum because it was ''hard to say aluminium" (yeah thats how stupid american's are, they remove letters from words because they are ... too hard to say otherwise ...)

Just because the USA says/does it doesn't mean its correct.

Perhaps you need to learn how to speak the language yourself?

[WeaselWJ]

@joevalu Woooooow. How stupid can you get.

[RudivanHemert]

in the netherlands we call tinfoil aluminium foil just what it is...

[replypdf]

How is tin refined?

[Naddig74]

I grew up in a Stannary town :)

[meteorman96]

i love tin, one of the reasons i do is because i can melt it on my stove and play around with it in the liquid stage, very fun :)

[eutectics]

i love tin (odd i know). if you bend a bar of tin you can hear a crying sound, no joke. its to sound of the crystals breaking. mmmm, tin.

[darksideofthebrick13]

Sn=stanium?

[Superchickenman159]

@eutectics you are to tin as salad fingers is to rusty spoons

[disorganizedorg]

@eutectics I was about to suggest a demonstration of "tin cry" should a new version of this video be made.

[douro20]

Those are quite ancient samples; how old are most of them?

[asagarinene]

Tin based solders can cause problems in electronics. It has a tendency to spontaneously grow crystals of tin from the surface. These crystals, called tin whiskers, grow from the base, and can sometimes cause short circuits. NASA studied this extensively due to satellite failures caused by tin whisker short-circuits.

It was found that adding lead to a tin alloy helped to prevent these whiskers from growing, but since the use of lead is now regulated it may become a problem in the future again.

[gedasltu]

Tin is very plastic, you can try to bite off some tin wire ;D

[yhaqtera]

Tin is relatively flexible and if you have one of those samples and twist and turn it you can hear it crack because of various chemical bonds (?) breaking.

[rochelimit55555]

alchemist associate tin with Jupiter, and it has Jupiter symbol as well, why is that?

[dradeel]

Apperantly there was a god in Etruscan mythology called Tinia, which was/is the equivalent to Jupiter in Roman mythology, and probably became a shared idol with Jupiter during the Etruscan monarchy in Rome. The two mythologies probably have a shared history in general as well. Since some elements are named after old gods (like Thorium) I assume Tin got its name from Tinia, hence the shared symbol and association with Jupiter :)

[rochelimit55555]

oooooooooo

[MercuryRis]

@dradeel thats interesting, because in alchemy Tin is associated with the planet Jupiter. And scientists have the coolest hair! lol

[NASCreations]

It's because Jupiter is composed mainly of tin.

Just kidding, of course!