Tin - Its Mining, Production, Technology, And Applications - Second Edition, American Chemical Society Monograph Series #51

In this book, the author has attempted to cover the subject of tin in a somewhat comprehensive manner. The history, the physical and chemical properties, and the production, distribution, and consumption of the metal have been treated. The ores and ore deposits, the ore dressing, mining, smelting, refining, and metallurgy represent the distinctly metallurgical sections. These have been treated somewhat from the viewpoint of the metallurgical chemist rather than from the viewpoint of the mining engineer. The industrial applications of tin in its simpler forms, as in plating, hot-dipped coatings, foil, and collapsible tubes, are written from the viewpoint rather of the chemist than of the mechanical engineer. The section on alloys has been written from the standpoint of the physical metallurgist; and the sections on corrosion from that of the chemical engineer. Chapter Titles are as follows: History; Physical & Chemical properties of the metal; Production, distribution, & consumption; Ores and ore deposits; Mining & Ore Dressing; Metallurgy; Gaseous reduction, leaching & metallic reduction; Electrolytic refining; Plating; Electrolytic tin plate; Constitutional thermal equilibrium diagrams--binary alloys; Ternary & Quaternary alloys; Alloys in industry; Hot-dipped coatings; Foil & collapsible tubes; Compounds; Corrosion; Corrosion of tin plate by food products; Secondary tin; Detinning of tin-plate scrap; & Analytical Methods.