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General Tin Information

Chemical Formula: Sn Composition: Molecular Weight = 118.71 gm

Tin 100.00 % Sn

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Empirical Formula: Sn Environment: In placer sands(Oban, Australia) and in calcite as discrete grains (Beaverlodge, Canada). IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA) Prehistoric Locality: Original locality lost in antiquity. Isolated localites world wide. Link to MinDat.org

Data. Name Origin: A word of Old English origin, related to the Dutch tin and the German zinn. Name Pronunciation: Tin Synonym: ICSD 40037

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Tin

Comments: Stream rounded silvery metallic tin grains.Location: Near Oban, New South Wales, Australia. Scale: © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

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Tin Sorosite Stistaite

Comments: Back-scattered electron image of large sorosite crystal (So=partly skeletal) adjacent to stistaite (St). Tn=native tin. Note abundantsorosite isolated within native tin. (AmMin 83:903). Location: Baimka gold-platinum group mineral placer deposit, Chukotka, Russian Far East. Scale: Image Size 1.5 cm. © American Mineralogist

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Tin Crystallography

Axial Ratios: a:c = 1:0.5457 Cell Dimensions: a = 5.831, c = 3.182, Z = 4; V = 108.19 Den(Calc)= 7.29 Crystal System: Tetragonal - Ditetragonal DipyramidalH-M Symbol (4/m 2/m 2/m) Space X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 2.915(1), 2.793(0.9), 2.017(0.74),2.062(0.34), 1.484(0.23), 1.205(0.2),

1.442(0.2), Crystal Structure:

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Wyckoff R W G , Crystal Structures , 1 (1963) p.7edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York, Sample known as white tin

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Physical Properties of Tin

Cleavage: {???} Indistinct Color: Grayish white, Tin white. Density: 7.31 Diaphaneity: Opaque Fracture: Malleable - Deforms rather than breaking apart with a hammer. Habit: Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix. Hardness: 2 - Gypsum Luminescence: Non-fluorescent. Luster: Metallic Magnetism: Nonmagnetic Streak: gray white

Optical Properties of Tin

RL Anisotrophism: Moderate. Reflectivity

λ R1 R2 ∑ R1(λ) ∑ R2(λ)

400 nm 76.30 72.70

420 nm 79.40 74.20

440 nm 81.90 75.80

460 nm 84.00 77.60

480 nm 85.50 79.20

500 nm 86.70 80.50

520 nm 87.50 81.40

540 nm 88.10 81.90

560 nm 88.20 82.00

580 nm 88.00 81.90

600 nm 87.70 81.50

620 nm 87.20 81.10

640 nm 86.70 80.70

660 nm 86.30 80.40

Standardized Intensity (100%) Reflection Spectra of Tin in Air



680 nm 85.80 80.10

700 nm 85.40 79.80

Relative Intensity

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Calculated Properties of Tin

Electron Density: Bulk Density (Electron Density)=6.14 gm/cc note: Specific Gravity of Tin =7.29 gm/cc.

Fermion Index: Fermion Index = 0.16 Boson Index = 0.84

Photoelectric: PETin = 326.76 barns/electron

U=PETin x ρρρρElectron Density=2,006.65 barns/cc. Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Tin is Not Radioactive

Tin Classification

Dana Class: 01.01.13.01 (01)Native Elements (01.01)with metallic elements other than the platinum group (01.01.13)Dana Group 01.01.13.01 Tin Sn I 41/amd 4/m 2/m 2/m

Strunz Class: 01.AC.10 01 - ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides)

01.A - Metals and Intermetallic Alloys 01.AC -Indium-tin family 01.AC.10 Tin Sn I 41/amd 4/m 2/m 2/m

Other Tin Information

References: NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(AntBidBlaNic1) OPTIC PROP.(AntBidBlaNic1) See Also: Links to other databases for Tin :

1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 - Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery 3 - Athena 4 - GeoScienceWorld 5 - Google Images 6 - Google Scholar 7 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm) 8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 9 - MinDAT 10 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 11 - Online Mineral Museum 12 - QUT Mineral Atlas 13 - Ruff.Info 14 - WWW-MINCRYST

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