To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at how researchers study some of the elements in their work. Today’s it’s tin, a chemical that has little ...

When deposited atop a pure copper crystal, tin atoms form into 100,000-atom rafts that scoot around madly, depositing bronze spots in their wake, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories in ...

Bronze, a copper-tin alloy, is renowned for its durability, strength, and versatility. Also known as phosphor bronze, it includes phosphorus as a deoxidizing agent and contains 11 % zinc and up to ...

UNS C90200 to C91700 are the designations allotted to the cast tin bronzes or copper tin alloys that have excellent corrosion resistance. When placed against steel, tin bronzes exhibit high wear ...

The MRE provides the first quantification of resources and underlines the potential for significant resource growth through further drilling.

Some of the studied tin ingots from the sea off the coast of Israel (approx. 1300-1200 BCE). Credit: Ehud Galili The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the greatest enigmas ...

Tin from the Mušiston mine in Central Asia’s Uzbekistan traveled more than 2,000 miles to Haifa, Israel, where the ill-fated ship loaded its cargo before crashing off the eastern shores of Uluburun in ...