3.The alloy layer of tinplate is an intermetallic compound formed between base plate and tin coating through thermodiffusion during the treatment of heating and fusing after electrotinning.
7.The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.