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tinkal

See:tincal

tinker

Derb. Laminated carbonaceous shale. Fay

tin minerals

Virtually all the industrial supply of tin comes from cassiterite, SnO
2 , though a little has been won from the sulfides stannite,
cylindrite, and franckeite. Bulk of cassiterite comes from alluvial
workings. Main market is in tin plating, tin foil, solders, bearing
metals, bronze and other alloys, and such salts as opacifiers and dye
mordants. Pryor, 3

tinned sheet iron

See:tin plate

tinner

A tinsmith. Webster 3rd

tinning metal

An alloy of equal parts of tin and lead; used by electrotypers for coating
copper shells before backing. Fay

tin ore

See:cassiterite

tin plate

Sheet iron or steel, cleaned by pickling in acid and then passed through
bath of molten tin to produce coating. Three grades are charcoal plate,
coke plate, and crystallized. Tin is also deposited by electroplating.
Syn:tinned sheet iron

tin pyrites

See:stannite

tin salt

See:salt of tin

tin spar

See:cassiterite

tinstone

See:cassiterite

tin stone

See:cassiterite

tin-white cobalt

See:smaltite

tinworks

A place or an establishment where tin is manufactured or mined.
Standard, 2

tip

a. The point at which loaded mine cars are dumped on the surface. Also
called tipple. Hudson
b. A piece of tool material secured to a cutter tooth or blade.
ASM, 1

tipple

a. Originally the place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of
their coal, and still used in that sense, but more generally applied to
the surface structures of a mine, including the preparation plant and
loading tracks. BCI
b. The dump; a cradle dump.
c. Aust. The tracks, trestles, screens, etc., at the entrance to a
colliery where coal is screened and loaded. CF:dump

T-iron

a. An angle iron having T-shaped cross section. Fay
b. T-rails used in a mine, as distinguished from wooden rails. Fay

titan

See:titanium; titanite.

titanaugite

See:titanian augite

titanhornblende

A titaniferous variety of hornblende. English