What material is the tin plate, please?
Popularly speaking, it was tin plated on the surface of the iron sheet, just because it was imported by Macao at that time, so it always called "tinplate iron"
Tinplate is a tin covered with tin, it is not easy to rust, also known as tin iron
This kind of galvanized steel in a long time Chinese called "tin", some people think that the tin plate cans was made from the Guangdong province of Macao (English Macao for tinplate imports, readable) so called "tin". There are also other claims, such as Chinese used this lamp of kerosene tin plate manufacturing, shaped like a horse, so called "tin". The name "tin" not exactly, therefore, 1973 Chinese meeting has been upgraded to tin plate tin plate, the official documents will no longer use the name "tin".