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steel in a tuxedo of tin, cheap muscle dressed up to outlive your dinner.
means Thin steel or iron sheet coated with a fine layer of tin to resist rust, the classic material of food cans and old toys.
from A plain compound of "tin" + "plate." "Tin" is an old Germanic word for the soft, bright metal, shared with German Zinn and Dutch tin. "Plate" comes through Old French from Latin plata, "a flat sheet of metal," a relative of the words for flat things that also gave us "plateau" and "platter." Put together, the name does exactly what it says: a plate of steel given a skin of tin — a craft old enough that whole towns once lived and breathed by the tinplate trade.
- barely tin
- It's mostly steel, with tin under 1% thin
- can savior
- Made the food can possible in 1810
- napoleon's prize
- He paid to invent canning for armies
- rust shield
- Tin coating stops steel from corroding fast
- toy empire
- Built the wind-up tin toy golden age
welsh tinplate industry — dominated global tinplate production in swansea and llanelli from 1870s-1960s, producing 90% of world's tinplate at peak
lacquer-coated tinplate — used for coca-cola cans since 1955, became industry standard for beverage packaging worldwide
tinplate decorative boxes — victorian era luxury gift boxes, particularly biscuit tins from huntley & palmers bakery, 1868 onwards