Tin must be mined ( mainly as the tin ore cassiterite ) and smelted separately, then added to molten copper to make the bronze alloy.

The historical and current production 602 line cymbals and the historical Sound Creation cymbals, both from the major manufacturer Paiste, and the current production M-Series cymbals from Meinl are made from sheet bell bronze with a 20 % Tin content.

Tin originally mined at South Crofty was used to form the bronze medals awarded in the 2012 London Olympics

Tin is necessary to make bronze from copper, and by about 1600 BCE the West Country was experiencing a trade boom driven by the export of tin across Europe.

Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On The Side Of The Angels '' and `` Politics And Poker '' were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little Tin Box '' even better than it was done by the New York cast ; ;

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

It was directed by Chung King Fai and Ko Tin Lung and ran from 14 to 21 March 2009.

The Bronze Age was a time of heavy use of metals and of developing trade networks ( See Tin sources and trade in ancient times ).

Britain was one of the places proposed for the Cassiterides, that is Tin Islands.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance — among fans and critics alike — to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

Tin Machine IIs arrival was marked by a widely publicised and ill-timed conflict over the cover art: after production had begun, the new record label, Victory, deemed the depiction of four ancient nude Kouroi statues, judged by Bowie to be " in exquisite taste ", " a show of wrong, obscene images ", requiring air-brushing and patching to render the figures sexless.

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

In reference to the dish barbecued dog in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, the authors explain that it was " a snack which produced a mixed reaction among the representatives of an industry that had given the world Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Phyllis Diller, and Muki the Wonder Hound.

Tin, which was $ 8. 72 a pound in 1980, was down to $ 3. 88 a decade later.

Baum wrote a sequel, The Woggle-Bug, but since Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running, the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were omitted from this adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before it could reach Broadway.

Plans included statues of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead, and H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E .. Baum abandoned his Oz park project after the failure of The Woggle-Bug, which was playing at the Garrick Theatre in 1905.

Tin was much less common than lead and is only marginally harder, and had even less impact by itself.

An Australian psychedelic rock band and an American independent progressive rock band have used the name " Tin Tin ", and British electronic dance music duo Tin Tin Out was similarly inspired by the character.

Tin and arsenic were mined from the 1880s at the Ottery Mine, near Emmaville.

Tin, lead or arsenic may be added for colouration.

Tin pest can be avoided by alloying with small amounts of electropositive metals or semimetals soluble in tin's solid phase e. g. antimony or bismuth, which prevent the decomposition.

Tin is suitable for the float glass process because it has a high specific gravity, is cohesive, and immiscible into the molten glass.

" Tin cans were popular packaging materials in the 19th century, but transfer technologies were required before the lithographic process could be used to print on the tin.

He appeared as " Herring "-a parody of Nazi official Hermann Göring-the minister of war in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator ; he danced with Alice Faye and Betty Grable in Tin Pan Alley ; he stole scenes as a dim witted process server in the fast-paced comedy His Girl Friday ; playing an Italian character, he played opposite singer Gloria Jean in The Under-Pup and A Little Bit of Heaven.

Another batch of 300, 000 and 200, 000 chickens in 5 farms in Kam Tin New Territories were also included in the quarantine process.

At that time, the company primarily developed computer animation hardware, but had made a name for itself by producing such acclaimed CGI short films as Tin Toy, which won an Oscar.

He suggested Tin Lizzie, the name of a robot character from the comic, itself named for the common nickname for the iconic Ford Model T car.

The Tin Drum album itself peaked just outside the UK Top 10, and was the band's first record to be certified by the BPI, being awarded a Silver disc within a month of release, and reaching Gold status within four months.

In the first episode of the fifth year, the concert party is itself posted up the jungle, and the show is then set in Tin Min, Burma, just behind the front lines.

The Tin Woodman of Oz provides backstory for Oz itself ; it was not always a fairyland, and became one by being enchanted by the Fairy Queen Lurline, who left a fairy behind to rule it.

However, the station itself is a short distance from the actual rural towns of Kam Tin or Pat Heung.

These were used for pumping water out of the Cornish Tin mines, and therefore the efficiency and efficacy of the engines was an important factor in the amount of tin, and money, which could be extracted from a mine.

Seeing his dog being filmed, Duncan became convinced Rin Tin Tin could become the next Strongheart.

Later on jazz and blues were incorporated, although less completely, as Tin Pan Alley was oriented towards producing songs that amateur singers or small town bands could perform from printed music.

However, without a heart, the Tin Woodman felt he could no longer love Nimmie Amee and therefore he left her.

Tin foil was recommended when a cheaper material than gold was requested by the patient, however tin wore down rapidly and even if it could be replaced cheaply and quickly, there was a concern, specifically from Harris, that it would oxidise in the mouth and thus cause a recurrence of caries.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz shows an early example of the problem: although the Tin Woodman does not die when his limbs and head are severed, the two wicked witches are killed ( The Wicked Witch of the East could be explained that she was simply crushed and not really dead, but couldn't do anything anyway, and in The Oz Odyssey, the Wicked Witch of the West comes back to life.

* 1980: The Tin Drum-Specific scenes were ordered deleted before the film could be shown in Ontario.

* Tin Whiskers could threaten Shuttle and International Space Station safety ( Space. com news article )

Primarily employed for comic relief, his work in films such as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1958 ) proved he could also master dramatic material.