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The mill also makes tin and chrome for Campbell’s soup and for various bottlers.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
According to the Sheriff’s Office, shortly before 7:15 p.m. on Dec. 14, bartender Matthew Davis Reed at Cactus Jack’s II allegedly sold a tin of snuff to a 17-year-old who was working with the Sheriff’s Office.
—Jorge Sosa, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
Over the past month, M23’s lightning advances have expanded its control over North Kivu province’s lucrative coltan, gold and tin ore mines, uprooting thousands in what was already one of the world’s most dire humanitarian crises.
—Reuters, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
Excavations also uncovered two tin weights used for spinning wool and a very rare metal comb used for making clothing, archaeologists said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
According to the Sheriff’s Office, shortly before 7:15 p.m. on Dec. 14, bartender Matthew Davis Reed at Cactus Jack’s II allegedly sold a tin of snuff to a 17-year-old who was working with the Sheriff’s Office.
—Jorge Sosa, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
Over the past month, M23’s lightning advances have expanded its control over North Kivu province’s lucrative coltan, gold and tin ore mines, uprooting thousands in what was already one of the world’s most dire humanitarian crises.
—Reuters, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
Excavations also uncovered two tin weights used for spinning wool and a very rare metal comb used for making clothing, archaeologists said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Tin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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