Editing Tin (section)

===Tin plating===
[[File:Inside of a tin platted can.jpg|thumb|Tin plated metal from a [[Tin can|can]]]]
Tin bonds readily to [[iron]] and is used for coating [[lead]], zinc, and steel to prevent corrosion. [[Tin plating|Tin-plated]] (or tinned) steel containers are widely used for [[food preservation]], and this forms a large part of the market for metallic tin. A tinplate canister for preserving food was first manufactured in London in 1812.<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Childs |first= Peter |date= July 1995 |title= The tin-man's tale |url= http://pubs.rsc.org/historical-collection/products/EIC#!issueid=EIC-1995-32-4 |url-access=subscription |magazine= [[Education in Chemistry]] |volume= 32 |issue= 4 |page= 92 |publisher= [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] |access-date= 19 June 2018 }}</ref><!-- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2006/02/09/a-canned-history-of-tinned-food-115875-16682285/ https://books.google.com/books?id=EmJRAAAAMAAJ Page 59 https://books.google.com/books?id=qz8rAAAAYAAJ --> Speakers of British English call such containers "tins", while speakers of U.S. English call them "[[tin cans|cans]]" or "tin cans". One derivation of such use is the slang term "[[tinnie]]" or "tinny", meaning "can of beer" in Australia. The [[tin whistle]] is so called because it was mass-produced first in tin-plated steel.<ref>{{cite book | url = {{google books |plainurl=y |id=IpuaAAAAIAAJ|page=13}} | pages = 10–15 | title = Tin Under Control | isbn = 978-0-8047-2136-3 | last1 = Control | first1 = Tin Under | date = 1945 | publisher = Stanford University Press | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160531012725/https://books.google.com/books?id=IpuaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 | archive-date = 2016-05-31 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url = {{google books |plainurl=y |id=IpuaAAAAIAAJ|page=10}} | pages = 10–22 | title = Trends in the use of tin | author1 = Panel On Tin, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials | date = 1970 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160522102214/https://books.google.com/books?id=qz8rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 | archive-date = 2016-05-22 }}</ref>

Copper cooking vessels such as saucepans and frying pans are frequently lined with a thin plating of tin, by [[electroplating]] or by [[Kalai (process)|traditional chemical]] methods, since use of [[Copper toxicity|copper cookware with acidic foods]] can be toxic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cooking utensils and nutrition Information {{!}} Mount Sinai - New York |url=https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/nutrition/cooking-utensils-and-nutrition#:~:text=The%20FDA%20also%20warns%20against,acidic%20foods,%20causing%20copper%20toxicity. |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Mount Sinai Health System |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ali Sultan |first1=Saif Ali |last2=Ahmed Khan |first2=Fawad |last3=Wahab |first3=Abdul |last4=Fatima |first4=Batool |last5=Khalid |first5=Hira |last6=Bahader |first6=Ali |last7=Safi |first7=Sher Zaman |last8=Selvaraj |first8=Chandrabose |last9=Ali |first9=Abid |last10=Alomar |first10=Suliman Yousef |last11=Imran |first11=Muhammad |date=2023-07-24 |title=Assessing Leaching of Potentially Hazardous Elements from Cookware during Cooking: A Serious Public Health Concern |journal=Toxics |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=640 |doi=10.3390/toxics11070640 |doi-access=free |issn=2305-6304 |pmc=10386729 |pmid=37505605}}</ref>