TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 134

Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 134 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 1236 Titanium Global Resources has shown that the lead from the older types of capsules contaminated some of the wines and that corks posed a potential health hazard. The lead-based capsules were banned in Europe in 1993 and in the United States in 1996. Tin capsules are nontoxic. Between 50 and 60 percent of wine capsules are made from tin. Research into uses for tin continues. Because of its unusual physical properties and because it is nontoxic tin will continue to be an important metal. Jay R. Yett Further Reading Evans Anthony M. The Mineralogy of Economic Deposits. In Introduction to Mineral Exploration edited by Charles J. Moon Michael K. G. Whateley and Evans. 2d ed. Malden Mass. Blackwell 2006. . Ore Geology and Industrial Miner als An Introduction. 3d ed. Boston Blackwell Scientific 1993. Greenwood N. N. and A. Earnshaw. Germanium Tin and Lead. In Chemistry of the Elements. 2d ed. Boston Butterworth-Heinemann 1997. Howe Paul and Peter Watts. Tin and Inorganic Tin Compounds. Geneva Switzerland World Health Organization 2005. Lehmann Bernd. Metallogeny of Tin. New York Springer 1990. Massey A. G. Group 14 Carbon Silicon Germanium Tin and Lead. In Main Group Chemistry. 2d ed. New York Wiley 2000. Thoburn John T. Tin in the World Economy. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 1994. Web Sites Natural Resources Canada Canadian Minerals Yearbook Mineral and Metal Commodity Reviews http mms-smm busi-indu cmy-amc . Geological Survey Tin Statistics and Information http minerals pubs commodity tin See also Alloys Brazil Bronze China Copper Hydrothermal solutions and mineralization Indonesia Lead Metals and metallurgy Plutonic rocks and mineral deposits Portugal South Korea United States. Titanium Category Mineral and other nonliving resources Where Found Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth s crust and accounts for percent of the planet s total mass. It is never found uncombined but it is

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