stannum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stannum
1775–85; < Late Latin: tin, Latin stannum, stagnum alloy of silver and lead
Example Sentences
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Stannum saw Bacchus pursued by the ravening Mænads; saw Lamia and her ophidian flute; and sorrowfully sped Orpheus searching for his Eurydice.
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
All God's mud made moan for recognition; and Stannum was sorrowful....
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
But now Stannum notices a shriller accent, the accent of a sun that has lost its sex and is stricken with soft moon-sickness.
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
Stannum could discern no melody, though he grasped its beginnings; double flutes gave him the modes, Dorian, Phrygian, Æolian, Lydian and Ionian; after Sappho and her Mixolydian mode, he longed for a modern accord....
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
Therefore neither electrum nor Stannum is of itself a real metal, but rather an alloy of two metals.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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