A method for monitoring highly poisonous tin compounds originating from landfill sites has been developed by French Scientists. Organotin compounds are widely used as heat and light stabilisers in the ...

Tin (Sn) is mostly found in cassiterite (SnO 2) and has been known since ancient times. It is obtained by reducing the ore with coal in a reverberatory furnace. Tin is a silvery-white lustrous metal, ...

Tin wouldn't come anywhere near the top of most people's list of the most important elements, yet the history of our species is very closely entwined with this dull grey metal. Tin was the basis of ...

Two Red Bank families still are coping with a chemical spill that contaminated creeks and ponds in central Lexington County 16 years ago. Memories of water tainted by tin-based compounds in February ...

Tin wouldn't come anywhere near the top of most people's list of the most important elements, yet the history of our species is very closely entwined with this dull grey metal. Tin was the basis of ...