Black tin


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(Mining) tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"What would the great man say?" she inquired, pointing to the rows of black tin boxes which lined the walls.
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Make Up For Ever Matte Velvet Skin Blurring Powder Foundation 12H comes in a lovely black tin compact with a double-sided flat sponge.
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So - and here's where some of the magic began - we three joined hands, something usually impossible, and when Mother was taking her afternoon siesta, we entered the larder without permission and zeroed in like homing pigeons on that little black tin of chocolates.
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Based on data from the city health office, there was a 43-percent decline in dengue cases from 718 in 2013 to 397 in 2014, a decrease attributed to the black tin cans designed to trap mosquito eggs.
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With the pretty black tin pencil box with multi deco lettering and a dual finish, the great textural feel starts before you even get to the actual products.
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When I was wee me and my pal would hide at the bins and light up one of her dad's John Player Specials that she had pinched from the black tin he had full of them.
Can't wait to see fag end of this drug habit; Hard to believe that we used to sit unperturbed in restaurants and the cinema with the fug of a smoke cloud over our heads and now, while my pals have given up, cigarettes are still linked to 13,000 deaths in Scotland a year
Lives from a Black Tin Box by Prudence Bell, Ronald Clements Authentic Media, PS8.99 This is the story of Prudence Bell's family, going back several generations to set the scene for the missionary couple, Herbert and Elizabeth, who went out to Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, China, and were brutally killed in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
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The long room, filled with gleaming glass display cases, has an original black tin ceiling and is painted in an earthy shade of clay that highlights the backlit, sometimes menacing figures.
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There were also three clear glass jars full of pasta--one large, one medium, and one small--as well as a black tin with the label "I cannot know." The automated task consisted of an automated version of the table-top task, with all stimulus presentations and participant responses recorded by Visual Basic.
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The Swedish band, with Andrew Wyatt, clearly aren't short of ideas: Paddling Out sounds like Fatboy Slim's Praise You on speed, while Black Tin Box is a space-age take on the dark electro of The Knife.
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Eventually, the bath will begin to plate black tin, and until recently, there has been no way to predict when the bath would begin to plate black tin.
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Graham Smith who virtually lives on Ravensthorpe's doorstep caught steadily on a floating line and a green and black tin head.
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