Research fellowships in the engineering experiment station of the University of Illinois

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1917
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 183
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(17)90927-5

✦ Synopsis

Nickel and Tin. C.S. TRENCII. (Brass World, vol. 12, No. 1I, November, I916.)--Nickel and tin are tile only metals we seem unable to find among our mineral resources. There is no substitute for tin. Unlike other metals, the price has no effect on consumption.

• If tin were at 15 cents we would perhaps put more on our tin plates and make better solder and babbitt metal. If it were one dollar per pound we would still have to use it for nearly every use for which it is employed. Tin is one of the weakest points in America's selfsufficiency as a nation. The effect of being cut off from tin would create sanitary troubles that would prove very serious. In the opinion of the writer, tin at present prices is on a safe basis and after the war much higher prices are to be expected. Tin is the only metal selling to-day at less than the average price of two years before the war, the price being Io per cent. lower, while the prices of other metals are 52 to I8o per cent. higher.