Wiktionary
alt. (context AU NZ British English) A very thin, pliable, easily torn sheet of aluminium used for cooking, packaging, cosmetics, and insulation. n. (context AU NZ British English) A very thin, pliable, easily torn sheet of aluminium used for cooking, packaging, cosmetics, and insulation.
WordNet
n. foil made of aluminum [syn: aluminum foil, tin foil]
Wikipedia
Aluminium foil (or aluminum foil), often referred to with the misnomer tin foil, is aluminium prepared in thin metal leaves with a thickness less than ; thinner gauges down to are also commonly used. In the United States, foils are commonly gauged in thousandths of an inch or mils. Standard household foil is typically thick, and heavy duty household foil is typically . The foil is pliable, and can be readily bent or wrapped around objects. Thin foils are fragile and are sometimes laminated to other materials such as plastics or paper to make them more useful. Aluminium foil supplanted tin foil in the mid 20th century.
Annual production of aluminium foil was approximately in Europe and in the U.S. in 2003. Approximately 75% of aluminium foil is used for packaging of foods, cosmetics, and chemical products, and 25% used for industrial applications (e.g. thermal insulation, cables and electronics). It can be recycled.
In North America, aluminium foil is known as aluminum foil. It was popularized by Reynolds Metals, the leading manufacturer in North America. In the United Kingdom and United States it is, informally, widely called tin foil, for historical reasons (similar to how aluminium cans are often still called "tin cans"). Metallised films are sometimes mistaken for aluminium foil, but are actually polymer films coated with a thin layer of aluminium. In Australia, aluminium foil is widely called alfoil.
Usage examples of "aluminium foil".
He opened and cleaned the wounds with something that felt like a wire brush, stitched them up neatly, covered them all with aluminium foil and bandage, fed me a variety of pills then, for good measure, jabbed me a couple of times with a hypodermic syringe.
In a third, Barbie had been given an Asian appearance - black geisha wig, slant accents around the eyes - and dressed in an aluminium foil kimono.
She was heating some kind of thin broth in a pan she'd made out of aluminium foil.
The garlic bread lay like a pile of silver slugs in its aluminium foil.
One of those tiny ribbed-plastic and aluminium foil tubs of milk served on trains enabling you to carry one safely back to you compartment where your legs in comfort trying to get the bloody things open.