block tin
Americannoun
noun
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It is also used in coating copper and iron plates, and in silvering looking-glasses, besides being cast into a variety of forms, when it is called block tin.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
A tin-plate worker may even cut his base-plate out of stout block tin, and get as good results as if the bell were made by an engineer.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone
Hence, where silver cannot be had, iron vessels are preferable to tinned copper ones; or those made of tinned iron-plates in the common tin-shops, which are said to be covered with pure or block tin.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Britannia, pewter, and block tin in table use are polished the same as silver.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
Buns and some other cakes should be baked in square shallow pans of block tin or iron.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Eliza Leslie
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