If a second tin pot is used, called the wash pot, it contains tin at a lower temperature.
The Company required that the finest quality English pewter contain at least 94% tin, with the balance made of other metals including lead.
Tin forms a eutectic mixture with lead containing 63% tin and 37% lead.
Bell metal is also a copper-tin alloy, containing 22% tin.
Cymbal bronzes containing 8% tin are most normally called B8 alloy.
The territory held by the Celts contained tin, lead, iron, silver and gold.
It could, however, be "triple pewter" containing less tin and as much as 15 percent antimony.
It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
A study showed that 99.5% of the controlled food cans contain tin in an amount below that level.
The Younger Granites contain tin which was mined during and after the colonial period.