Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light yellow, red-brown, or black mineral, SnO2, that is an important tin ore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native tin dioxid, SnO2, a mineral crystallizing in tetragonal forms, usually of a brown to black color, and having a splendent adamantine luster on the crystalline faces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (
wood tin ), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin ). It is the chief source of metallic tin. Seeblack tin , underblack .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A generally black
mineral , composed of tin oxide, SnO2, which is an importantore oftin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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~ Tin is found in nature chiefly as the oxide (SnO_ ), called cassiterite or tinstone.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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In certain exceptional cases this may contain some unaltered cassiterite, which is easily recognised by its appearance.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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The global coltan price has collapsed, so now they focus hungrily on cassiterite, which is used to make tin cans and other consumer disposables.
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Congo is awash with gold, diamonds and metals such as cassiterite and coltan used to weld small pieces together in electronics.
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This is especially important for those valuable minerals which exhibit a brittle to very brittle tenacity, such as cassiterite, sphalerite and the tungsten minerals scheelite and wolframite.
Chapter 20 1993
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Congo is awash with gold, diamonds and metals such as cassiterite and coltan used to weld small pieces together in electronics.
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On April 23rd, Republican senator Sam Brownback introduced the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009, cosponsored by senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin, which would require American companies mining coltan, cassiterite, and wolframite to report annually to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency that regulates American financial markets, to disclose the country of origin of the minerals to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Global Voices in English » New bill to increase oversight of American mining companies in DRC 2009
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Fifteen existing villages of shifting cultivators, and mining settlements for gold, cassiterite and coltan were located in the west section of the Park, though neither they nor the indigenous pygmies were consulted when it was created; and several villages in the buffer zone, where the boundary had never been defined, were sources of conflict.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo 2009
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The minerals in question—cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold and wolframite—are widely used in consumer electronics and other products, although Congo supplies no more than 20% of global demand for these raw materials.
Can Annual Reports Save Lives? Jason Zweig 2011
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A month ago, TV5MONDE found that armed elements were systematically pilliaging cassiterite in Walikale [a territory in North Kivu] with the complicity of Kinshasa.
Global Voices in English » New bill to increase oversight of American mining companies in DRC 2009
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