Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Tin Cup, Pushing Tin, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - tin shows up in pop culture all the time. It also shows up in everyday life - lining steel cans to make them suitable for food storage, replacing lead in solder...
HERNDON and ARLINGTON, Va. -- JEDEC and the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative iNEMI today announced the availability of two documents intended to help manufacturers reduce the risk of tin whiskers in lead-free products. The first is JEDEC standard JESD201, "Environmental Acceptance Requirements for Tin Whisker Susceptibility of Tin and Tin...
Photophysical Properties of Tin Ethyl Etiopurpurin I (SnET2) and Tin Octaethylbenzochlorin SnOEBC in Solution and Bound to Albumin Brian W. Pogue'2, Robert W. Redmond', Niraj Trivedi' and Tayyaba Hasan*l ABSTRACT The photophysical characteristics of two second-generation PDT photosensitizers, tin ethyl etiopurpurin I (SnET2) and tin octaethylbenzochlorin SnOEBC, have been measured...
HERNDON, Va. -- The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative iNEMI today announced the availability of two documents intended to help manufacturers reduce the risk of tin whiskers in lead-free products. The first is JEDEC standard JESD22A121, "Test Method for Measuring Whisker Growth on Tin and Tin Alloy Surface Finishes," and the...
In the context of a new zero-gas-emission process for continuous oxygen steelmaking, desorption of copper, tin, and zinc from liquid scrap are modeled. Additive diffusional-resistance concepts show that zinc elimination at atmospheric pressure is entirely straightforward. For copper and tin, a reduced pressure (2.5 mbar) and a relatively high temperature...
National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI, 2214 Rock Hill Rd., Suite 110, Herndon, VA 20170-4214; Tel: 703/834-0330, Fax: 703/834-2735), the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, and the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society TMS are co-sponsoring a workshop to address Tin Whiskers, a metallurgical issue that has surfaced in the...
LONDON AFP — The price of tin has hit a 17-year high point in trading here owing to expectations of a supply deficit in 2007, largely owing to a drop in Indonesian output. On the London Metal Exchange LME the price per tonne for delivery of tin in three months...
BRITISH BREAKS The tin industry is long gone but one of its old mines is being reopened, bringing a new boost to the county, says Alex Wade South Crofty, an ancient and profitable mine for centuries, notched up an unwanted distinction in 1998: it became the...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 7--Rising tin prices in recent months reflect an upward trend in the market, according to Anusorn Nuengpholmark, director-general of the Department of Primary Industries and Mines. The market has shown remarkable improvement...
Merrill Lynch tin market analysts are bucking the consensus, forecasting higher prices in the months ahead. Tin has risen 40% in the past year on the London Metal Exchange LME to $7,000/tonne. The Merrill Lynch analysts now predict that tin will tr Merrill Lynch tin market...
Tex Tin Cleanup Success On July 1, TCEQ and EPA jointly declared as successful the cleanup by BP Amoco Chemical Co. of its Tex Tin Corporation operational unit in Texas City. This is the first Superfund "Ready for Reuse" designation for a former tin and copper smelter site in...
By training their analytical tools on pottery fragments discovered in Turkey, scientists have pieced together a new picture of how Bronze Age people there obtained tin, a key raw material for making bronze.Throughout the Near East, bronze artifacts from 4,500 years ago attest to the Importance of this valuable copper-and...
BOCA RATON, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 22, 1996--It's a double eagle for Kevin Costner fans and golf fanatics: iGOLF, the premier online golf community, will host a unique series of "links" to mark the premiere of Tin Cup, the new Warner Bros. romance centered around golf.
LONDON AFP — The prices of lead and tin hit historic peaks here on Thursday, supported by tight global supplies and fierce demand for both base metals, analysts said. "Fund interest focused on the smaller contracts such as tin and lead, which traded at new highs on fresh buying,"...
FERNLEY AND FERNLEY Inc. will provide management services to the Tin Stabilizers Association TSA, a newly formed group of major ... FERNLEY AND FERNLEY Inc. will provide management services to the Tin Stabilizers Association TSA, a newly formed group of major chemical corporations....
Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Ask a room of base metals analysts what they are bullish on, and you'll get a tin ear. In fact, at the recent Inside Commodities conference, that's exactly what happened. by Hard Assets Investor
TEXAS CITY, Texas ENS ? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA completed the Tex Tin smelter cleanup months ago, ahead of schedule, "and we saved nine or ten million dollars," says Carlos Sanchez, a remedial project manager at EPA-Dallas. "We used a design-build approach," says Sanchez. "We divided the...
To improve the solderability of electronic device components, manufacturers often deposit a protective coating made with tin or tin-copper alloy upon the parts. However, these coatings can result in the formulation of hair-like crystals known as &q To improve the solderability of electronic device...
By Yuthana Praiwan, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 18--Mandatory contributions to the now-defunct international tin buffer stock will soon be waived to revive the country's tin mining industry, Industry Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said yesterday. The Mining...
Modern Plating Corporation, Freeport, IL, announced that it has been approved by General Motors as an applicator for GM's Trivalent Tin Zinc finish. Tin zinc is the newest of the zinc alloys and offers excellent corrosion protection. It is often used as a replacement for cadmium...
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