block tin
Americannoun
noun
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As I could find no wheels to suit me I made the moulds and cast the wheels myself out of block tin and zinc.
In 1869, three United States patents on a copper coffee urn lined with block tin were granted to Élie Moneuse and L. Duparquet of New York.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
It consists of four pieces, the whole being made of block tin.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
Twelve feet below the surface of the spring a block tin tube conveys the water into reservoirs placed at the bottom of this vault.
From Saratoga and How to See It by Dearborn, R. F.
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 Priestley, Joseph
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