By Garrett Wiebking Edited by Ashley Fogarty\ Tin ingots, often known by the Latin name stannum, are silver-white metallic blocks made from refined tin. While often cast into brick-shaped ingots weighing about one pound, they are manufactured in a variety of sizes depending on their intended industrial use. Modern tin ingots commonly exceed 99.99 percent purity, making them suitable for demanding manufacturing applications. Tin begins as cassiterite, the ore from which tin

Author: K. Shirley Editor: Tessa Hanna According to the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, antimony (Sb) is a hard, brittle, silvery-white semi-metal found in the Earth’s crust. It rarely occurs in pure form because it readily combines with other elements, especially sulfur, forming more than one hundred different types of minerals. Antimony is often extracted as part of complex sulfide ores, processed, and refined for industr

By: Kennedy Barrow Edited by: Glenn T. Johnston I. A fictional introduction to tuberculosis as it might have appeared in 1800s Baltimore. The paper boy looked gaunt and pale, but he persevered, his raspy voice cracking as he shouted, “Consumption sweeps through the ships of America—the ‘king’s evil’ has struck”! Many people walked their way through the soiled and grimy cobblestone streets, the smell of a city inhabited by the unwashed penetrating through their many layers of