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Definition of Tin disease
1. Noun. The transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tin Disease
Literary usage of Tin disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Medical Gazette (1835)
"Sir John Floyer, in the appendix to his Treatise on Asthma, gives an account of
tin- disease in a broken-winded marc. Ruysch and Valsalva had seen dilated ..."
2. Practical Chemistry by Lyman Churchill Newell (1922)
"Sheet tin affected centra ted nitric acid oxidizes it by " tin disease " (enlarged
to a white solid known as meta- ..."
3. Nervous Diseases: Their Description and Treatment by Allan McLane Hamilton (1878)
"Adults are not exempt; but tin- disease prefers the young. It is a disease, ...
In the city of New York, the first outbreak of tin- disease appeared in ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1903)
"The application to the technical problems of industrial chemistry dealt with the
study of the phenomenon known as tin disease, and also the behaviour of ..."
5. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"... tangling, and anomalous development of the hair, or by an alteration of the
nails, which become spongy and blackish. In older days tin- disease ..."
6. The Museum: A Manual of the Housing and Care of Art Collections by Margaret Talbot Jackson (1917)
"The tin disease is another very serious malady which is so far little understood.
It comes about through exposing objects containing tin to too great cold ..."
7. The Museum, a Manual of the Housing and Care of Art Collections: A Manual of by Margaret Talbot Jackson (1917)
"The tin disease is another very serious malady which is so far little understood.
It comes about through exposing objects containing tin to too great cold ..."
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