In the past, black rats were the most commonly infected animals and hungry rat fleas would jump from their recently-dead rat hosts to humans, looking for a blood meal. Pneumonic plague, a particular form of plague infection, is instead transmitted through infected droplets in a sick person's cough.
Tin(IV) oxide is a constituent of the food contact surface that is the subject of FCN 235 (Use of tin antimony oxide [also known as antimony gray cassiterite] as a pigment for all polyolefins for food contact applications).
Tin(II) chloride (stannous chloride) is a white crystalline solid with the formula Sn Cl 2. It forms a stable dihydrate, but aqueous solutions tend to undergo hydrolysis, particularly if hot. SnCl 2 is widely used as a reducing agent (in acid solution), and in electrolytic baths for tin-plating. Tin(II) chloride should not be confused with the other chloride of tin; tin(IV) chloride or stannic chloride (SnCl 4). Structure. SnCl 2 has a lone pair, such that the molecule in the gas phase is bent.