ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Nearly one year ago Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center started a project to remove tin pest from more than nine million pounds of tin. Defense ...

With the lingering debate over the reliability of new, lead-free solders dictated by RoHS regulations, the story of Napoleon’s buttons has been making its rounds again in engineering circles. As the ...

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Illinois -- It's called tin disease or tin pest, and just like a disease, it can spread rapidly on the affected metal. At Rock Island Arsenal's Joint Manufacturing and Technology ...

NPL has been using this expertise in the area of studying the allotropic phase transformation in tin and its alloys, commonly known as tin pest, to measure the implications of adopting lead free ...

Video: Tin flips from ordinary metal to a crumbly mess at low temperatures – a transformation now captured on film (Footage courtesy NPL) Researchers have captured the first video footage of “tin pest ...

Here we see a sped-up video of tin undergoing a normal reaction known as “tin pest.” But in the 1800s, tin pest filled cathedrals with screeching cries as it made church organs rip themselves apart, ...