Sn
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Etymology
Origin of Sn
From the Latin word stannum
Example Sentences
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“Professor, I think — I know — that Sn — that someone’s going to try and steal the Stone. I’ve got to talk to Professor Dumbledore.”
From Literature
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Sn is a set of independent operations from which a group G is generated.
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The emigration took place, he says, at a time when a Danish king, by name Sn�, ruled, and when there occurred a terrible famine.
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Segel said one day to Derrick Sn�sel: "What's to be done now, I wonder; the squire tells me to do one thing, and the bailiff tells me to do another."
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C, Si, Ge, Zr, Th, tetravalent; Ti, tetravalent and hexavalent; Sn, Pb, divalent and tetravalent; Ce, trivalent and tetravalent.
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