tin disease

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   the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures

   Synonymstin pesttin plague

   Broadertransformation

Questions about tin disease

What does tin disease mean?

tin disease means "the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures".

What is another word for tin disease?

Close synonyms include tin pest, tin plague. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tin disease a common word?

tin disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.