Why is tin a metal?

Tin is a soft, silvery-white metal that is very light and easy to melt. Learn about its properties, production, and applications. read more

Tin has two forms (allotropes) one is"white tin" (beta-tin) which is a metal although some chemists/metrial scientists would call it a"poor metal"- and"grey tin" (alpha-tin), a low temperature form, which has a similar structure to diamond and more covalent in character. read more

Tin is a chemical element with symbol Sn (from Latin: stannum) and atomic number 50. It is a post-transition metal in group 14 of the periodic table. Tin shows a chemical similarity to both of its neighbors in group 14, germanium and lead, and has two main oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4. read more

Tin shows a chemical similarity to both of its neighbors in group 14, germanium and lead, and has two main oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4. Tin is the 49th most abundant element and has, with 10 stable isotopes, the largest number of stable isotopes in the periodic table, thanks to its magic number of protons. read more