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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The scientists, led by Dr. Zhang, named the new material stanene, combining the Latin name for tin — stannum — with the suffix used for graphene, another material based on a sheet of carbon atoms a single molecule thick.
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I gave her a homœopathic dose of phosphoric acid and stannum; and, to the surprise of all around her, the night sweats did not break out at their usual hour,—three o’clock in the morning.
From Project Gutenberg
The metal which flows liquid at the first melting is called stannum, the second melting is silver; that which remains in the furnace is galena, which is added to a third part of the ore.
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The Roman term was plumbum candidum, and as a result of Agricola's insistence on using it and stannum in what he conceived was their original sense, he managed to give considerable confusion to mineralogic literature for a century or two.
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When copper vessels are coated with stannum they produce a less disagreeable flavour, and it prevents verdigris.
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