However, some flutes, such as the whistle, gemshorn, flageolet, recorder, tin whistle, tonette, fujara, and ocarina have a duct that directs the air onto the edge ( an arrangement that is termed a " fipple ").

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle.

Their politically tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, cittern, mandolin and accordion.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

* Spider Stacy-vocals, tin whistle

The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, tin flageolet, Irish whistle feadóg stáin ( or simply feadóg ) and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.

A tin whistle player is called a tin whistler or whistler.

The tin whistle is closely associated with Celtic music.

The tin whistle in its modern form is from a wider family of fipple flutes which have been seen in many forms and cultures throughout the world.

In Europe such instruments have a long and distinguished history and take various forms ; most widely known of these are the recorder, tin whistle, Flabiol, Txistu and tabor pipe.

The term flageolet is still preferred by some modern tin whistle who feel this better describes the instrument, as this characterises a wide variety of fipple flutes, including penny whistles.

The modern penny whistle is indigenous to the British Isles particularly England when factory-made " tin whistles " were produced by Robert Clarke from ( 1840 – 1882 ) in Manchester and later New Moston, England.

The Clark tin whistle is voiced somewhat on an organ-pipe with a flattened tube forming the lip of the fipple mouthpiece and is usually made from rolled tin sheet or brass.

Clarke whistles were sold for a nominal fee ( a British penny ) and the acquired names of penny and tin whistle have endured to modern times.

The name " tin-whistle " was also coined as early as 1825. but neither tin whistle or penny whistle name seems to have been common until the 20th century.

The Belgians were interested primarily in the economic development of the Congo, which is rich in copper, tin, cobalt, manganese, zinc, and uranium, and cotton and palm oil.

As expected by periodic trends, it is more electronegative than tin or bismuth, and less electronegative than tellurium or arsenic.

Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

* 1952 – Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines

If, conversely, tin is used to coat steel, when a breach of the coating occurs it actually accelerates oxidation of the iron.

Mixing artist or student quality acrylic paint with household acrylic emulsions is possible, allowing the use of pre-mixed tints straight from the tube or tin, so presenting the painter with a vast color range at his or her disposal.

For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

Geologic occurrence is in granite pegmatites, high-temperature tin veins, and greisens.

By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.

* Naval brass, similar to admiralty brass, is 40 % zinc and 1 % tin.

Many have similar tin contents to contemporary bronze artefacts and it is possible that some copper-zinc alloys were accidental and perhaps not even distinguished from copper.

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive.

Also, unlike arsenic, tin is not toxic.

The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.

There are many different bronze alloys but modern bronze is typically 88 % copper and 12 % tin.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

Bronze is the preferred metal for top-quality bells, particularly bell metal, which is about 23 % tin.

Modern cymbals consist of several types of bronze, the most common being B20 bronze, which is roughly 20 % tin, 80 % copper, with traces of silver.

A Swiss company, Paiste, uses a tougher B8 bronze which is made from 8 % tin and 92 % copper in the majority of their cymbals.

: which is of the form suggested the previous year by M. J. Buckingham in Very High Frequency Absorption in Superconductors based on the fact that the superconducting phase transition is second order, that the superconducting phase has a mass gap and on Blevins, Gordy and Fairbank's experimental results the previous year on the absorption of millimeter waves by superconducting tin.

Alloying lead and tin with antimony improves the properties of the alloys which are used in solders, bullets and plain bearings.

Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was the first alloy discovered, during the prehistoric period now known as the bronze age ; it was harder than pure copper and originally used to make tools and weapons, but was later superseded by metals and alloys with better properties.

* Nordic gold, used in 10, 20 and 50 cts euro coins, contains 89 % copper, 5 % aluminium, 5 % zinc, and 1 % tin.

However other alloys such as low tin bronze were also used and they vary depending on local cultural attitudes, the purpose of the metal and access to zinc, especially between the Islamic and Byzantine world.

It was only later that tin was used, becoming the sole type of bronze in the late 3rd millennium BC.

Alpha bronze alloys of 4 – 5 % tin are used to make coins, springs, turbines and blades.

Since copper metallurgy was already known to have existed in Europe since 7000 BC, with heavy axes of natural bronze produced in bulk since 5500 BC, and since true bronze, made by deliberately alloying copper with tin had already been used in parts of east-central Europe since 3700 BC, Ötzi's axe came as no surprise to archaeologists.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

Hushing was also widely used in Britain in the Medieval and later periods to extract lead and tin ores.

Using wooden letters at first, he later used lead and tin movable type.

These superconducting alloys, also containing titanium and tin, are widely used in the superconducting magnets of MRI scanners.

Concentrates of the heavy minerals cassiterite ( a primary source of tin ), and coltan ( used to manufacture electronic capacitors, used in consumer electronics products such as cell phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers ).

Silver can be alloyed with mercury, tin and other metals at room temperature to make amalgams that are widely used for dental fillings.

Amongst the Warring States period swords, some unique technologies were used, such as casting high tin edges over softer, lower tin cores, or the application of diamond shaped patterns on the blade ( see sword of Goujian ).

Alloys of lead and tin were universally used in the past, and are still available ; they are particularly convenient for hand-soldering.

A eutectic alloy of 63 % tin, 37 % lead is widely used ; alloys with larger proportions of lead ( 60 / 40, etc.

Lead, and to some degree tin, as used in solder contains small but significant amounts of radioisotope impurities.

The first alloy, used in large scale since 3000 BC, was bronze, an alloy of tin and copper

This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.

The six hole, diatonic system is also used on baroque flutes, and was of course well known before Robert Clarke began producing his tin whistles c. 1843.