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A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT 
OF THE : 
SEVERAL PROCESSES 
WHICH ARE 
USUALLY PURSUED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE_ 
ARTICLE KNOWN IN COMMERCE 
BY THE NAME OF 
TIN-PLATE. 
BY 
SAMUEL PARKES, F.L.Se §c. 
IN A LETTER TO BENJAMIN NAYLOR, ESQ, 
(Read Feb. 20th, 1818.) 
—>P>O<e 
AS the processes in this manufacture are 
more numerous and complicated than is ge- 
nerally imagined, it may be advisable to. 
preface the account with an enumeration of 
some of those properties of tin which will 
be most likely to explain the rationale of the 
principal operations. 
Tin has a great affinity for several of the 
other metals—particularly for zinc, mercury, 
copper, antimony, lead and iron—and owing 
to these affinities, its employment in the arts 
is very considerable. 
Tin, with zinc forms a metal of close 
grain, very useful for many purposes, espe- 
cially for the formation of pewter. The zine 
