[TheForge] Old tinware question

[James Binnion]

Not all that long it has only been the past couple of decades that there was a major effort to curb its use completely and it is still used in some protective coatings. The greenish hue makes me think cadmimum as well.


On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:

> 
> Me:
> 
>    Some old tinware had a surface treatment with a greenish hue, not
>    grass-green but vaguely like US army fatigues.  Pot covers,
>    cupcake tins, cake pans.
> 
> PF:
> 
>    I would guess that they didn't have modern reservations about
>    additions like lead and cadmium.  I recall cadmium was in a lot of
>    the old marine galvanized coatings.
> 
> 
> 
> Eeeek!  But they've know not to eat cadmium for a long time heven't they?
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 
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