Tin - Periodic Table of Videos

How did Tin help make better swords? And why is a tin can called a tin can? Videos about all the elements at http://www.periodicvideos.com/index.htm

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[Chris Boland]

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.

[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 :)

[Quentin Holmes]

lol minecraft in piriodic table videos

[Jodabomb24]

Only 128. It would take a whole stack just to get one diamond.

[JooJoona]

So... You love things that make crying sounds? Ok then... : I

[Tuuliska]

(cont) You take these bars of tin (usually shaped like horseshoes, probably for luck), melt them in a ladle over fire and then quickly throw the molten tin into a bucket of cold water. It forms really cool shapes. Then you look at the shapes and interprete from them what your new year will be like. Some people do it by putting them in front of a light so they cast shadows on the wall and then they interprete the shadows. A shape that looks like a boat means "a journey" for example.

[Tuuliska]

Over here (Finland) we don't call aluminium foil "tin foil", just aluminium foil. So when I hear tin I think of one of these two things instead: either tin soldiers or new years' tins. I don't know if you've heard of the latter. It's a new years' tradition, a kind of a divination method. (I'll explain in another comment.)

[nisbahmumtaz909]

I prefer chromium myself as my choice of metal coating, but tin is fine. I don't know much about it, though.

[AaronM9552]

Tin has good emc. They should condense it.

[dradeel]

After what? The Etruscan monarchy in Rome? The important question is what English speaking people call it and where they got its name from, and how it is associated with the symbol of Jupiter. All of that would naturally come a lot later. Not too much work on the periodic table going on in Rome from 800 to 500 BC and on.

Btw, it was just a hypothesis that I found intriguing, and I'll continue to do so until I stumble across a confirmation of its validity or the opposite :)