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🜩 U+1F729, 🜩 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR TIN ORE ← 🜨 [U+1F728] Alchemical Symbols 🜪 → [U+1F72A]

In older manuscripts, tin was the planetary metal of Mercury, and the symbol of Mercury was used for tin-bearing minerals

Translingual

Etymology

• ⟨♃⟩ tin, plus a circle for a bearing mineral (γη 'earth') that dates back at least to the medieval Marcianus graecus 299 manuscript, and continuing an older tradition.

Symbol

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1. (obsolete, alchemy) A tin-bearing mineral or ore.