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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
Rare The HighStakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
Author: Keith Veronese
How will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up? You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be instantly less omniscient, video game systems would falter, and laptops fail.  Tantalum is not alone.  Rhodium. Osmium. Niobium. Such refugees from the bottom of the periodic table are key components...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781616149727
ISBN-10: 1616149728
Publication Date: 1/6/2015
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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