Why tin disintegrate

But buttons made out of pure tin would have been quite expensive compared to wood or bone. And chemically, tin pest is a very slow process. In fact, LeCouteur says that a colleague stuck a pot of tin in his fridge as an experiment. Ernst Cohen, a Dutch scientist who wrote over 40 papers on tin pest from to , interpreted item 50 on page as referring to the volume expansion of tin pest. Erdmann, on the disintegration of tin pipe-organ pipes in very cold weather.

Since about there has been a slow, but continuous, stream of publications about tin pest, with a huge increase since when people started becoming really scared about the side effects of the RoHS Directive.

The researchers, D. Di Maio and C. This paper is scheduled to be published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. These storage dumps would obviously be there for a long time in the cold. The residual water within the paraffin would still be held a liquid and support the rusting. Thanks for the extra research on tin pest. Featured Video. Cite this Article Format. Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph. What Is Tin Pest?

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