Food container Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Food container crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on August 9 2023 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Food container has a total of 3 letters.

RankAnswerCluePublisher
99%TINFood containerWall Street Journal
20%PETSCANSGently strokes some food containers?Wall Street Journal

Definition

An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
Money.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

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  • Wall Street Journal: Aug 9, 2023
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