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Platinum is less reactive than tin. Suggest why steel cans are coated with tin rather than platinum.
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Platinum is less reactive than tin. Suggest why steel cans are coated with tin rather than platinum.

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Food cans are coated with tin and not with zinc because zinc is above the tin in reactivity series means more reactive than tin and can react with food elements preserved in it.

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