Tin is element 50, a post-transition of the p block, in group 14, period 5. Its ground-state configuration is [Kr] 4d10 5s2 5p2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 4.
Tin has been known since antiquity, so no discovery is credited for it.
Name origin: English word (stannum in Latin).
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