Chemical Elements

"Of Tin Gods you may oft have heard or read. But this one was entirely made of lead."

"And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, Every thing that may abide the [[fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water."

"As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you."

"The terms used for this metal are either ba'aẓ or avaẓ, kassitera, kassiteron, and gassiteron (Gr. κασσίτερος). Both ba'aẓ and kassitera are used in the same passages (Men. 28b and elsewhere), which implies that they were two different metals or kinds of the same metal. The Temple menorah was not to be made of them, but when the Hasmoneans cleansed the Temple and needed a new menorah (the golden one having been carried off by Antiochus IV), they made it of seven spears plated with tin. It was forbidden to make weights out of metal – tin and lead being mentioned specially – because metal wears away. The traveler Pethahiah of Regensburg (12th century) reports that in Babylonia people were summoned to synagogue by a tin instrument. In the later Middle Ages up to modern times tin was used extensively for artistic *ritual objects such as Ḥanukkah menorot, seder, Kiddush, and Havdalah plates, etc."

"Six metals are mentioned in the Bible and in many passages they are listed in the same order: gold, silver, copper, iron, Tin, and lead... The Bible speaks of the high qualifications necessary for the specialized metalwork of the Tabernacle: "I have endowed him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge...to make designs for work, in gold, silver, and copper... Solomon was forced to bring the craftsman Hiram from Tyre to work in copper."

"Chemical signs ought to be letters, for the greater facility of writing, and not to disfigure a printed book … I shall take therefore for the chemical sign, the initial letter of the Latin name of each elementary substance: but as several have the same initial letter, I shall distinguish them in the following manner:— 1. In the class which I shall call metalloids, I shall employ the initial letter only, even when this letter is common to the metalloid and to some metal. 2. In the class of metals, I shall distinguish those that have the same initials with another metal, or a metalloid, by writing the first two letters of the word. 3. If the first two letters be common to two metals, I shall, in that case, add to the initial letter the first consonant which they have not in common: for example, S = sulphur, Si = silicium, St = stibium (antimony), Sn = stannum (tin), C = carbonicum, Co = colbaltum (colbalt), Cu = cuprum (copper), O = oxygen, Os = osmium, &c"

"The solution of tin used by dyers for the scarlet and for many other colours upon wool, silks, and cotton, are commonly called spirits, or tin spirits."

"In Soft Soft solders with small additions of lead in tin impairs the retention of its bright reflective surface in common atmospheres."

"Pweter is an alloy which has 90% tin, 1 to 8% Sb, 0.25 to 5% cu, and a maximum of 0.05 percent Pb and As and it has the same degree of corrosion resistance as pure tin. Alloys within this range are used for decorative items, containers, and flatware."

"Tin derives its name from the anglo-saxon word ´tin´. It derives its chemical symbol ´Sn´ from the latin word stannum. The first uses of tin appear to have been in alloys with copper and zinc to make brass and bronze, and can be dated back to about 3,500 BC. It is not known who identified tin as an element and it may have been recognized as something that could not be divided any further, or was elemental, by alchemists and experimenters."

"Tin Printing, which was introduced about 1875, is the application of the lithographic process to the decoration of metal plate. A substantial percentage of can-label work formerly done by the paper lithographer has in recent years gone to the tin lithographers... Sheets of prepared tin are fed into the press and are then oven dried at high temperature, this procedure being repeated for each additional colour."

"In clear dry air tin retains a bright appearance for many days. According to studies light dulling was noted after 100 days , and faint yellowish grey tarnish colour after 150 days. When tine is washed with soap and water its reflectivity does not change over long periods."

"Because she lately nimm'd some tin, they have sent her to lodge at the King's Head Inn."

"Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents; Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold."

"Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare."

"My copper lamps, at any rate, For being true antique, I bought; Yet wisely melted down my plate, On modern models to be wrought."

"God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do."

"I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. The firste spirit quiksilver called is, The seconde orpyment, the thridde, ywis, Sal armonyak, and the firthe brimstoon. The bodys sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars iren, Mercurie quyksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tyn, And Venus coper, by my fader kyn!"

"I looked at the ornaments on the desk. Everything standard and all copper. A copper lamp, pen set and pencil tray, a glass and copper ashtray with a copper elephant on the rim, a copper letter opener, a copper thermos bottle on a copper tray, copper corners on the blotter. holder.There was a spray of almost copper-colored sweet peas in a copper vase. It seemed like a lot of copper."

"The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper."

"He was only about as tall as Dorothy herself, and his body was round as a ball and made out of burnished copper. Also his head and limbs were copper, and these were jointed or hinged to his body in a peculiar way, with metal caps over the joints, like the armor worn by the knights in days of old. He stood perfectly still, and when the light struck upon his form it glittered as if made of pure gold."

"His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters."

"Instead of the copper I shall bring in gold, and instead of the iron I shall bring in silver, and instead of the wood, copper, and instead of the stones, iron; and I will appoint peace as your overseers and righteousness as your task assigners."

"It is silver that can pride itself as the overlay of the gods."

"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.– Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all others she sets us devote; They with the gold to give doled him our silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed."

"The sayings of the Lord are pure; they are like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times."

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

"And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver."

"Silver and gold have In one; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk."

"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver."

"Hi-ho, Silver, away!"

"If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one is the natural price of the other."

"First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go."

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron."

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

"What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows."

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns—you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"

"Not Philip, but Philip's gold, took the cities of Greece."

"Aurea nunc vere sunt specula; plurimus auro Venit honos; auro conciliatur amor."

"Well, I have never had the slightest interest in owning gold. It's a much better life to work with businesses and people engaged in business. I can't imagine a worse crowd to deal with than a bunch of gold bugs."

"O you who believe! most surely many of the doctors of law and the monks eat away the property of men falsely, and turn (them) from Allah's way; and (as for) those who hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in Allah's way, announce to them a painful chastisement, On the day when it shall be heated in the fire of hell, then their foreheads and their sides and their backs will be branded with it: This is what you hoarded up for yourselves, therefore taste what you hoarded."

"Money is gold, and nothing else."

"Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold."

"L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire, Et quo sans lui le reste est une triste affaire."

"Bright El Dorado, land of gold, We have so sought for thee, There's not a spot in all the globe Where such a land can be."

"The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man."

"But scarce observ'd the Knowing and the Bold, Fall in the gen'ral Massacre of Gold; Wide-wasting Pest! that rages unconfin'd, And crouds with Crimes the Records of Mankind, For Gold his Sword the Hireling Ruffian draws, For Gold the hireling Judge distorts the laws; Wealth heap'd on Wealth, nor truth nor Safety buys, The Dangers gather as the Treasures rise."

"Aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo."