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Tinplate

noun
1.
A thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins.  Synonym: tin plate.






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"Tinplate" Quotes from Famous Books



... over. No country in the future can consider itself safe unless it has secure access to such sources. We had a sharp lesson in this during the war. Palm oil, it seems, is necessary for the manufacture of tinplate, an industry that was built up in the United States by the McKinley tariff. The British possessions in West Africa were the chief source of palm oil and the Germans had the handling of it. During the war the British Government assumed control of the palm oil products of the British ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson



Words linked to "Tinplate" :   sheet metal, tinware, tin plate, tin



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