ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Nearly one year ago Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center started a project to remove tin pest from more than nine million pounds of tin. Defense ...

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Illinois -- It's called tin disease or tin pest, and just like a disease, it can spread rapidly on the affected metal. At Rock Island Arsenal's Joint Manufacturing and Technology ...

NPL has been using this expertise in the area of studying the allotropic phase transformation in tin and its alloys, commonly known as tin pest, to measure the implications of adopting lead free ...

Video: Tin flips from ordinary metal to a crumbly mess at low temperatures – a transformation now captured on film (Footage courtesy NPL) Researchers have captured the first video footage of “tin pest ...

Here we see a sped-up video of tin undergoing a normal reaction known as “tin pest.” But in the 1800s, tin pest filled cathedrals with screeching cries as it made church organs rip themselves apart, ...

Superconductivity – when a material has zero electrical resistance, therefore zero energy loss, at low temperatures – has enormous potential for energy-efficient electronic devices. A research team in ...

Tin (Sn) is mostly found in cassiterite (SnO 2) and has been known since ancient times. It is obtained by reducing the ore with coal in a reverberatory furnace. Tin is a silvery-white lustrous metal, ...