Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — Huns Make Solder Having Little Tin. [ARTICLE]

Huns Make Solder Having Little Tin.

Owing to the scarcity of tin in Ger* many, efforts have been made to produce a solder containing none of that metal. What is pronounced an excellent substitute was made from 80 per cent lead, plus cadmium and tin, but it could not be used in sealing food cans because the lead, in contact with acids in fruits, produces salts that are poisonous. More recently, it is said, a nonpoisonous solder has been obtained by combining bismuth and cadmium, both of which metals are found In Germany, with‘other metals not revealed.— Popular Mechanics Magazine.