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Old 10-14-2011, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by raaaid View Post
check out this scratches i did in this brand new polish tin with my nail after not getting much sleep :

tin is an extremely soft metal..one of the constituents of soft solder...
metal containers are not made from tin...but they may be made from tinplate.
this to prevent oxidisation of the underlying low grade steel...and being a thin layer of only several microns...

modern containers sometimes have a further layer of printed decoration added. using a process similar to magazine printing, but using a polymer film..
hardness measurement on ultra thin layers is problematical....jim
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