The role of tin foil

Tin foil is not unfamiliar to everyone. It is a common metal material and is widely used in life. Many people like to eat barbecue, and they often encounter tin foil when eating barbecue or grilling meat. In addition to being edible, tin foil has many other uses. For example, some people use tin foil for packaging, but of course people should also pay attention to safety issues when using it.

1. Tin foil has a wide range of uses, such as aviation food packaging, ordinary meat packaging, cigarette packaging, etc. Relevant experts have divided it into more than 20 varieties according to their different application characteristics. Due to differences in economic development levels among different countries, there are also great disparities in the consumption structure of aluminum foil. In developed countries in Europe and America, aluminum foil products used for packaging account for 70% of the total demand. In the Chinese market, aluminum foil is mainly used as raw and auxiliary materials for industrial manufacturing, and packaging aluminum foil only accounts for 30% of the total domestic demand. Although aluminum foil packaging developed relatively late, the market has grown rapidly and its prospects are attractive.

2. Aluminum foil is quite significant in construction applications. Pasting it on the surface of thermal insulation materials makes it more convenient, cleaner and more beautiful during construction. But the effects of different types of aluminum foil vary greatly. For example, fireproof and ordinary aluminum foil are not of the same grade.

3.Tin foil was a handicraft product unique to Shaoxing in the early years. In ancient times, its main use was to make ghost money for worshiping ghosts and gods. There are many other uses, such as sealing. In ancient times, tinfoil was rectangular or square in shape, like a thin sheet of paper that could be folded and deformed. The color of tin foil is silvery white, and the ash after burning is golden yellow. Its main components are tin and aluminum, and it is an alloy of tin and aluminum; its electrical and thermal conductivity are very good.

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