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tin foil

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tin·foil also tin foil  (tnfoil)
n.
A thin, pliable sheet of aluminum or of tin-lead alloy, used as a protective wrapping.
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Noun1.tin foil - foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead
tinfoil
foil - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
atomic number 50, Sn, tin - a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
2.tin foil - foil made of aluminumtin foil - foil made of aluminum                
aluminium foil, aluminum foil
foil - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
Al, aluminium, aluminum, atomic number 13 - a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
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I would like to appeal to all cyclists to add a little something like wind chimes or even pieces of tin foil that would tinkle as they move.
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Checks at Mr O'Dowd's room also revealed tin foil, often used in the preparation of heroin, although tests could not conclude whether or not a puncture mark on his arm was made by a syringe.
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The tests consisted of a similar set of pages with coloured dots and a beam of light which shone down from the corner of the room in front of which some coloured bits of tin foil passed, and I was asked to identify the colour of these bits of paper.
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