Elements / 50
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Tin
Post-transition metal · p-block · ring O · spoke 14
Tin is element 50, a post-transition metal. It sits on ring O (period 5) on spoke 14, the carbon group. Follow that spoke toward the center and out again to find its chemical relatives.
Properties
| Density | 7.37 g/cm³ | Terrain → |
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| Melting point | 505 K · 232 °C | Terrain → |
| Boiling point | 2,875 K · 2,602 °C | Terrain → |
| Electronegativity | 1.96 | Terrain → |
| First ionization energy | 709 kJ/mol | Terrain → |
| Atomic weight | 118.711 u | Terrain → |
| Crustal abundance | 2.3 ppm | Terrain → |
| Discovered | Known since antiquity | Terrain → |
Values from open reference data; see sources. "Terrain" opens that property as a 3D landscape across the whole spiral.
Two things you might not know
- Bend a bar of it and it lets out a cry from crystal twinning; in the cold it can crumble into a brittle grey form, a so-called pest.
- Alloyed with copper it made bronze from around 3000 BC; today just under half of it goes into solder, and it plates steel food cans.
Checked against en.wikipedia.org.
Spoke 14: Carbon group
Ring O (period 5)
Play with Tin
Watch it fly into its seat, or raise the whole spiral into a landscape and see where it peaks.