tinning

[ΤΙΝ, υ.] 1. The art, act, or proce of coating other metals with tin for the purpose of protecting them from oxidation or rust. Hollow ware is tinned inside, having been first thoroughly cleaned and heated, by pouring grain tin into the ve el and turning and rolling it about so as to bring it in contact with every part. Powdered rosin is used in the bath to prevent the formation of an oxide, and the surface of the ware is rubbed with cloth or tow to aid the proce . In cold tinning an amalgam of tin and mercury is applied to the metal, the mercury being other small articles are tinned by immersion. afterward driven off. Bridle-bits, stirrups, and 2. The coating or layer of tin so laid on. 3. Canning; packing meat, vegetables, ., in tins. tin-ni-tus, s. [Lat., from tinnio =to ring.] (See compound.)