Post-transition metal packing structure. Tin forms Zintl phases such as NaSn, BaSn, KSn and CaSn. It has good corrosion resistance in air on account of forming a thin protective oxide layer. Pure tin has no structural uses. It is used in lead-free solders, and as a hardening agent in alloys of other metals, such as copper, lead, titanium and zinc. Lead is a soft metal (MH 1.5, but hardens close to melting) which, in many cases, is unable to support its own weight. It has a close-packed structure (BCN 12) but an abnormally large inter-atomic distance that has been attributed to partial
Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars which Phillips had scored music for in the summer of 1986. The album was released in August 1987 in the United States by Audion Recording. It remained unreleased in the United Kingdom until Virgin Records put it out in 1991. All titles composed, performed, and produced by Anthony Phillips, except "Beachrunner" and "End of the Affair" composed by Phillips and Enrique Berro Garcia. Credits taken from the album's 1987 liner notes. Music Production Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars is the twelfth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and