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2. Corrugated galvanised iron - Wikipedia

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   Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia), is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised ...

3. Tinplate - Wikipedia

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   Tinplate consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap mild steel, the backing metal (known as "backplate") was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture of tin cans.

4. Galvanization - Wikipedia

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   Galvanized surface with visible spangle Galvanization ( also spelled galvanisation ) [ 1 ] is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron , to prevent rusting . The most common method is hot-dip galvanizing , in which the parts are coated by submerging them in a bath of hot, molten zinc.

5. Terne - Wikipedia

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   The terne alloy was in the ratio of 10-20% tin and the remainder lead. The low tin content made it cheaper than other tinplates. Terne plate was used for tinsmithed sheet metal goods, such as storage vessels, jugs and funnels, particularly for industrial use with flammable liquids. Unlike tinplate, it was not used for long-term storage or ...

6. Inland Steel Company - Wikipedia

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   The Story of an Inland Galvanized Sheet. Urbana-Champaign: Legare Street Press. ISBN 978-1-02-177280-0. Inland Steel Company (1943). 50 Years of Inland Steel 1893-1943. Inland Steel Company – via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bawal, Raymond (2016). The Inland Steel Fleet 1911-1998. Inland Expressions. ISBN 978-1-939150-13-4.

7. Steel and tin cans - Wikipedia

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   Cans can store a broad variety of contents: food, beverages, oil, chemicals, etc. In a broad sense, any metal container is sometimes called a "tin can", even if it is made, for example, of aluminium. [1] [2] Steel cans were traditionally made of tinplate; the tin coating stopped the contents from rusting the steel. Tinned steel is still used ...