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Use wire baskets for miscellaneous non-food items Wire baskets are effective for organizing food storage products such as plastic storage bags, tin foil, and parchment paper.
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Jordan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
Living conditions were primitive, with no windows or doors — instead, sacks or sheets of tin roofing were fixed over openings.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
For some varieties of caviar, a one-ounce tin — enough for about three servings — costs $225.
—Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
The analysis detected elements such as nickel, copper, zinc, tin, mercury, gold, lead and a big surprise: tungsten, which hadn’t even been described at the time.
—Cnn, The Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Jordan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
Living conditions were primitive, with no windows or doors — instead, sacks or sheets of tin roofing were fixed over openings.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
For some varieties of caviar, a one-ounce tin — enough for about three servings — costs $225.
—Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
The analysis detected elements such as nickel, copper, zinc, tin, mercury, gold, lead and a big surprise: tungsten, which hadn’t even been described at the time.
—Cnn, The Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Tin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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