tin

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It was rescued and saved by Rick Flagan, a professor of chemical engineering and environmental science, who found it in a tin film canister in a Caltech closet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

With no local testing or controls of exports, secondary minerals like tantalum, beryl and tin were being shipped out undetected and untaxed.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

It does what it says on the tin, delighting huge crowds with a nerve-jangling test for the best players in the world year in, year out.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Residents have responded in kind, posting a picture of a tin can phone to signal their slide back to the pre-digital age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

The discovery that copper and tin could be combined to form a new and stronger metal, called bronze, changed the course of human history.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler