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What metal can get plague?

At room temperature, tin is a silvery-white metal, but when the temperature drops to 13,2 ° C and below, its transition to another phase state begins - the so-called gray tin in the form of a powder. The contact of gray and white tin accelerates the process of recrystallization of the latter, therefore this process is called "tin plague". It became one of the reasons for the death of Scott's expedition to the South Pole, because the fuel stored in sealed tin tanks leaked out. There is also an opinion that it contributed to the defeat of Napoleon's army in Russia, since tin buttons on the soldiers' uniforms crumbled in severe frosts.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Whom did the ancient Greeks consider to be the progenitors of modern mankind?

When Zeus, angry with the people of the Copper Age, decided to destroy all life and sent a flood to the earth, the only righteous people who were allowed to escape were Deucalion, the son of Prometheus and the oceanides Clymene, and his wife Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. Deucalion, on the advice of Prometheus, built an ark in the form of a large box, on which he and Pyrrha escaped during the nine-day flood that destroyed mankind. On the tenth day, the water began to subside and the ark landed on Mount Parnassus, or, as some believe, Mount Etna.

It is also said that Deucalion was informed of the appearance of the earth by a dove released by him. Having descended safely to earth and made sacrifices to Zeus, Deucalion received advice from him on how to revive the human race (according to another version, Themis gave advice). Having wrapped their heads and loosened their belts, Deucalion and Pyrrha were supposed to throw the "bones of the mother" over their heads. Since Deucalion and Pyrrha had different mothers and both had already died by that time, they decided that the deity meant the earth, the universal mother of people, whose bones are stones lying on the river bank. Deucalion and Pyrrha carried out the order.

From the stones thrown by Deucalion, men appeared, from the stones of Pyrrha - women. Deucalion and Pyrrha also had children, among them Amphictyon, famous for entertaining Dionysus and being the first to mix water and wine. However, their eldest son Ellin, the founder of the Greek tribes, is most famous.

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