does anyone know anything about the element tin?
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in the periodic table that has the symbol Sn (L. Stannum) and atomic number 50. This silvery, malleable poor metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion is found in many alloys and is used to coat other metals to prevent corrosion. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, where it occurs as an oxide.\nNotable characteristics\n\nTin is a malleable, ductile, highly crystalline, silvery-white metal whose crystal structure causes a strange crackling sound known as the "tin cry" when a bar of tin is bent (caused by crystals breaking). This metal resists corrosion from distilled, sea and soft tap water, but can be attacked by strong acids, alkalis, and by acid salts. Tin acts as a catalyst when oxygen is in solution and helps accelerate chemical attack.\n\nTin forms the dioxide SnO2 when it is heated in the presence of air. SnO2, in turn, is feebly acidic and forms stannate (SnO3-2) salts with basic oxides. Tin can be highly polished and is used as a protective coat for other metals in order to prevent corrosion or other chemical action. This metal combines directly with chlorine and oxygen and displaces hydrogen from dilute acids. Tin is malleable at ordinary temperatures but is brittle when it is heated.\n\n\nAllotropes\n\nSolid tin has two allotropes at normal pressure. At low temperatures it exists as gray or alpha tin, which has a cubic crystal structure similar to silicon and germanium. When warmed above 13.2 °C it changes into white or beta tin, which is metallic and has a tetragonal structure. It slowly changes back to the gray form when cooled, which is called the tin pest or tin disease. However, this transformation is affected by impurities such as aluminium and zinc and can be prevented from occurring through the addition of antimony or bismuth.\n\n\nApplications\n\nTin bonds readily to iron, and has been used for coating lead or zinc and steel to prevent corrosion. Tin-plated steel containers are widely used for food preservation, and this forms a large part of the market for metallic tin. Speakers of British English call them "tins"; Americans call them "cans". One thus-derived use of the slang term "tinnie" or "tinny" means "can of beer". The tin whistle is so called because it was first mass-produced in tin-plated steel.\n\nOther uses:\n\n    * Some important tin alloys are: bronze, bell metal, Babbitt metal, die casting alloy, pewter, phosphor bronze, soft solder, and White metal.\n    * The most important salt formed is tin chloride, which has found use as a reducing agent and as a mordant in the calico printing process. Electrically conductive coatings are produced when tin salts are sprayed onto glass. These coatings have been used in panel lighting and in the production of frost-free windshields.\n    * Window glass is most often made via floating molten glass on top of molten tin (creating float glass) in order to make a flat surface (this is called the "Pilkington process").\n    * Tin is one of the two basic elements used since the Rennaisance in the manufacture of organ pipes (the other being lead). The amount of tin in the pipe defines the pipe's tone, tin being the most tonally resonant of all metals.\n    * Tin is also used in solders for joining pipes or electric circuits, in bearing alloys, in glass-making, and in a wide range of tin chemical applications. Although of higher melting point than a lead-tin alloy, the use of pure tin or tin alloyed with other metals in these applications is rapidly supplanting the use of the previously common lead–containing alloys in order to eliminate the problems of toxicity caused by lead.\n    * Tin foil was once a common wrapping material for foods and drugs; now replaced by the use of aluminium foil, which is commonly referred to as tin foil. Hence one use of the slang term "tinnie" or "tinny" for a small retail package of a drug such as c
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Here is some interesting facts on elements:\n\nhttp://www.pidc.com/prod_facts.html\n\nInteresting facts about gems and precious stones:\n\nhttp://www.indygem.com/productinfo_interesting.htm\n\nMetals and Alloys\n\nhttp://chemistry.about.com/od/metalsalloys/\n\nI hope that I found enough facts for you.  If you want more, just ask.  {smile}
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http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/k.html\n\nhttp://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Q6.htm
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The MOST recently discovered element was atomic number 118.  It is being temporarily called 'ununoctium'.  As to WHEN it was discovered... that's a little more complicated.\n\nA team of element-makers at Lawrence Berkeley lab claimed to have made it in 1999, but when nobody could reproduce the find with the lab's methods (even the original lab), their finding was discredited.\n\nIn Spring of 2002 (it took four months) the Joint Institude of Nuclear Research in Dubna claimed to have produced an atom of ununoctium.  This was confirmed by Dubna and the Berkeley lab when each of them produced another atom in 2005.\n\nThe average lifespan of these three atoms was just under a thousandth of a second.  So don't expect any accumulation of the stuff!
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look up the periodic table...duh
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it is a noble gas, but just because something isnt solid doesnt meanits a nonmetal. metals all become gasses at high temperature. the metals are on the left side of the periodic tabl and the non metals arre on the right. xenon is all the way on the right so its a non metal.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#Standard_periodic_table
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pretty much all elements are created in stars, the actual process is very confusing thankfully wikipedia is a better expaliner than i ----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion\nO2 is important because it helps us create lots of energy from glucose
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Titanium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It is a light, strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including resistance to sea water and chlorine) transition metal with a white-silvery-metallic colour. Titanium is used in strong light-weight alloys (most notably with iron and aluminium) and its most common compound, titanium dioxide, is used in white pigments. Substances containing titanium are called titaniferous. \n\nThis element occurs in numerous minerals with the main sources being rutile and ilmenite, which are widely distributed over the Earth. There are two allotropic forms and five naturally occurring isotopes of this element; Ti-46 through Ti-50 with Ti-48 being the most abundant (73.8%). One of titanium's most notable characteristics is that it is as strong as steel but is only 60% its weight. Titanium's properties are chemically and physically similar to zirconium. Notable characteristics Titanium is well known for its excellent corrosion resistance (almost as resistant as platinum), being able to withstand attack by acids, moist chlorine gas, and by common salt solutions. Pure titanium is not soluble in water but is soluble in concentrated acids. A metallic element, it is also well-known for its high strength-to-weight ratio. It is a light, strong metal with low density (60% as dense as steel) that, when pure, is quite ductile (especially in an oxygen-free environment), easy to work, lustrous, and metallic-white in colour. The relatively high melting point of this element makes it useful as a refractory metal. Titanium is as strong as steel, but 43% lighter; it is 60% heavier than aluminium, but twice as strong; however these numbers can vary a little because of the use of different alloys. These properties make titanium very resistant to the usual kinds of metal fatigue. \n\nThis metal forms a passive but protective oxide coating (leading to corrosion-resistance) when exposed to elevated temperatures in air but at room temperatures it resists tarnishing. The metal, which burns when heated in air 610 °C or higher (forming titanium dioxide) is also one of the only elements that burn in pure nitrogen gas (it burns at 800 °C and forms titanium nitride). Titanium is resistant to dilute sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, along with chlorine gas, chloride solutions, and most organic acids. It is paramagnetic (weakly attracted to magnets) and has a very low electrical and thermal conductivity. \n\nExperiments have shown that natural titanium becomes very radioactive after it is bombarded with deuterons, emitting mainly positrons and hard gamma rays. The metal is a dimorphic allotrope with the hexagonal alpha form changing into the cubic beta form very slowly at around 880 °C. When it is red hot the metal combines with oxygen, and when it reaches 550 °C it combines with chlorine. It also reacts with the other halogens and absorbs hydrogen. Applications \nwatches with titanium coverApproximately 95% of titanium is consumed in the form of titanium dioxide (TiO2), an intensely white permanent pigment with good covering power in paints, paper, toothpaste, and plastics. Paints made with titanium dioxide are excellent reflectors of infrared radiation and are therefore used extensively by astronomers and in exterior paints. It is also used in cement, in gemstones, and as a strengthening filler in paper. \n\nBecause of its very high tensile strength (even at high temperatures), light weight, extraordinary corrosion resistance, and ability to withstand extreme temperatures, titanium alloys are principally used in aircraft, armour plating, naval ships, spacecraft and missiles. It is used in steel alloys to reduce grain size and as a deoxidiser but in stainless steel it is employed to reduce carbon content. Titanium is often alloyed with aluminium (to refine grain size), vanadium, copper (to harden), iron, manganese, molybdenum and with other metals. \n\nIts vanadium allo
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This is really hard to answer. It's not like there is some New York Element Exchange where traders buy and sell elements. If you mean what is the monetary value of an element, there are some that are pretty easy to determine,  since metals like gold, silver, platinum, palladium, aluminum, copper, and other metals are used in industry. But if you want to know the cost of hafnium, then you aren't going to find any one answer, if you can find one at all. \n\nIf you want to see what the metals market prices are go here:http://www.metalprices.com/\nThat will give you most of them. If you want to see the cost of gases for industrial use, like nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, you'll have to contact someone like Praxair or Airgas to get a quote.\nhttp://www.praxair.com/praxair.nsf/0/6021E2747E378CF285256B9F0070368D?OpenDocument
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3.01E23 atoms of tin is about one-half mole (one mole is Avogadro's number -- 6.023E23 -- of anything).  So, which of the numbers you give is roughly one-half of the atomic weight of tin -- 118.69 grams/mole?
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The element is sulfur.   The compound is H2S, hydrogen sulfide
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http://www.elements.nb.ca/index1.htm\nhttp://www.chem4kids.com/files/elem_intro.html\nhttp://www.chemicalelements.com/\nhttp://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/toc.html
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My Chemistry teacher taught me a great story which helped me learn the elements, which groups they were in, which periods, how many electrons they had etc and resulted in me going from a grade F to B. Every kid should learn this.\n\nHorrible Heary Little Begger Boys Catch Newts On Friday Near Naples, Magnificent Albert Sits Planning Some Clever Arrangement Keeping Calm.\n\nOk, looks crazy until you break it down;\n\nH He Li Be B C N O F Ne Na, Mg Al Si P S CL Ar K Ca\n\nThen put it into the table\n\nH\n                   He\nLi Be  B C  N O F  Ne\nNa Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar \nK  Ca\n\nYou will need to line them up because Yahoo has left align, but the trick is the story. Hope this helps
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Indeed, it is the metal. \n\nThe accompanying in is usually NO3 or SO4--Colorless!!\n\n\nGet an "A".
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All s, d, and f elements are metals.\n\nBlock p includes metals, non-metals, and some metaloids in between.  Metals include Aluminum and down in that group.  Tin and down in that group. and Polonium in its group.  So the lower left corner of the p block are metals and the upper right corner are non-metals.  Boron, Silicon, Germanium, Antimony, and Tellurium, tend to be considered metaloids.  (Depends on who you read.)
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roito..  i'm no scientist, but the way i see it, since so many of our other elements have been hypothesized to be formed in a solar furnace, i'd take berilium to be no exception.  it's probably just left over from the nebula that produced our solar system.  However, astral bodies that collide with the earth also carry with them certain chemicals, so the source of berilium on this planet can also be attributed to some degree to those, as well.  \nhere's a neat factoid for ye..  protein strains that are slammed into the earth at those fantastic speeds known to meteors, upon impact, form amino acids...  if i can recall that episode of NOVA i saw on m'local PBS station correctly.  ;)
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Tellurium\nAntimony\nArsenic\nGermanium\nSilicon\nBoron