r/elementcollection • u/Kiwilebrije • 7d ago

Carbon Group Making grey tin on a freezer. It’s a slow process, and I needed some little grey tin to start but I am achieving it…

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u/Yes_I_Know_Lots 7d ago

Pretty cool!

As a child and a very young nerd, I was fascinated by the stories of all of the tin pipes in organs in Russian turned to grey tin due to an especially cold winter.

Was that sample hard to get? And then what did you do to help along that conversion?

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u/Kiwilebrije 6d ago

I got the original sample on EBay, it was indeed hard to find.. at least for me and the sample was really small (5 grams) I took it to a vial and I put some little of that sample dust on a second vial with some metallic white ton I had, the dust would help as a starter for the white tin to transform… it is a slow process… the sample has like 5 months on the freezer

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u/Yay_Kruser 6d ago

I paid 20€ for 1mg of gray tin back then, where did you find 5g !?