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Corrosion of oxide dispersion strengthened iron - chromium steels and tantalum in fluoride salt coolant: An in situ compatibility study for fusion and fusion - fission hybrid reactor concepts

As corporations increasingly rely on contractors for core parts of their business, they are held responsible by ethically minded consumers for actions further back in the supply chain - even the provenance of the mineral tantalum in their electronic devices like smartphones.

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General Mining Corporation shares fell sharply today after the company announced revised terms for the acquisition of an interest in Galaxy Resources» Mt Cattlin tantalum project near Ravensthorpe.

Philips, one of the largest electronics companies in the world, sources major quantities of raw materials, including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.

The company's gold division, despite the strong rise in the bullion price, remains second - rate and most of this year's forecast pre-tax and pre-interest profit of $ 132 million (up 12 per cent on 2003) will come from tantalum.

Global stockpiles are always an issue when markets turn and there is no accurate measure of how much tantalum is sitting in Yokohama warehouses.

«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.

AUSTRALASIAN Gold Mines NL has given the green light to a project to commission a pilot mining and treatment operation at its Dalgaranga tantalum project in WA by October.The Perth - based company has completed a study to establish a pilot operation,...

The system received 510 (k) clearance from the FDA in January 2018 and is comprised of a porous biomaterial made from elemental Tantalum with structural, functional and physiological properties similar to cancellous bone.

Tin mining commenced in the Greenbushes area in 1888 and mining of tantalum commenced in the 1940s.

Mustang has optioned 100 % of the mineral rights from Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada Ltd. («Tanco») in return for a 2 % net smelter royalty and a commercial right retained by Tanco to purchase products produced from the property.

To that end, it recently announced the purchase of Holy Stone Polytech Co., a manufacturer of tantalum capacitors based in Japan, for roughly $ 21 million in cash.

In this experiment, the scientists shocked a piece of tantalum foil with a pulse from an optical laser.

The dealloying forms two distinct phases: one enriched in tantalum that is less soluble in the copper liquid metal and the other enriched in copper.

Richard Schrock, a chemist now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and colleagues changed that picture in the early 1970s when they came up with a series of molybdenum -, tungsten -, and tantalum - based catalysts that were highly active and efficient.

Trace elements are increasingly widely used in the high - tech and medical sectors — for example, the transition metal tantalum and the semimetal germanium in electronic components, niobium and titanium in alloys and coatings, or gadolinium as a contrast medium and in luminous paints.

Electrons moving through a crystal usually scatter when they hit an impurity, which slows their progress, but the topological effects in Hasan's tantalum arsenide crystals allow electrons to travel unimpeded.

«Tantalum is used in every electronic device there is,» says Jack Lifton, an independent consultant specializing in technology metals.

This property makes tantalum perfect for producing the electricity - storing capacitors ubiquitous in the circuit boards of computers, digital cameras, and cell phones.

In December the mining firm Talison suspended operations at an Australian quarry that was the largest tantalum mine in the world, partially because of coltan smugglinIn December the mining firm Talison suspended operations at an Australian quarry that was the largest tantalum mine in the world, partially because of coltan smugglinin the world, partially because of coltan smuggling.

Yazdani and his colleagues discovered the odd behavior while studying electrons in a crystal made of layers of tantalum and arsenic.

The DRC produces half the world's cobalt, used in batteries, and is also an important source of gold and the «three Ts» — tungsten, tin and tantalum — which are present in the capacitors and circuitry in phones.

IBS scientists in collaborations with researchers led by Nohyun Lee (Kookmin University), Hyo - Cheol Kim (Seoul National University Hospital) designed nanoparticles with a shell made of silica (SiO2) and a core of radiopaque tantalum oxide (TaOx).

A novel nanostructured material based on tantalum oxide could make possible non-volatile crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits in 3 - D memory stacks.

Using the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne, they built a constricted wire out of a three - layered structure in which a tiny layer of magnetic material is sandwiched between tantalum and tantalum - oxide layers.

The memories are based on tantalum oxide, a common insulator in electronics.

In making the material, the researchers found the tantalum oxide gradually loses oxygen ions, changing from an oxygen - rich, nanoporous semiconductor at the top to oxygen - poor at the bottom.

In a first - of - its - kind series of computer simulations focused on metal tantalum, the team predicted that, on reaching...

Known specimens were The Greenbushes tantalum - tin - lithium deposit is located ~ 250 km south of Perth In Western Australia (#Location: 33 ° 51» 23S, 116 ° 3» 48E).

The Greenbushes tantalum - tin - lithium deposit is located ~ 250 km south of Perth In Western Australia (#Location: 33 ° 51» 23S, 116 ° 3» 48E).

, published on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/quando-recursos-minerais-se-esgotarao-648952.shtml >, based on information from the US Geological Survey, the US government agency responsible for geological research that crossed information on the annual consumption, mineral reserves available on the planet and its predictable extinction: 1) Platinum (use in surgical materials)-- Extinction by 2049; 2) Silver (use in the manufacture of mirrors and cutlery)-- Extinction in 2016; 3) Copper (use in wire and cable and air conditioning ducts)-- Extinction in 2027; 4) Antimony (use in remote controls and other materials to increase strength)-- Extinction 2020; 5) Lithium (use in cell phone batteries, laptops and video games)-- Extinction in 2053; 6) Phosphorus (use in agricultural fertilizers)-- Extinction in 2149; 7) Uranium (use for electric power generation)-- Extinction in 2026; 8) Indian (use in smartphones and tablets touch screen screens)-- Extinction in 2020; 9) Tantalum (use in cameras lenses)-- Extinction in 2027; 10) Nickel (use in metal alloy coating, electronics such as cell phones)-- Extinction in 2064; 11) Tin (use in coating metal alloys, such as those used in the soft drink cans)-- Extinction 2024; 12) Lead (use in car batteries and trucks and welds and bearings)-- Extinction in 2015; 13) Gold (use as jewelry and computer microchips)-- Extinction in 2043; 14) Zinc (use to cover alloys, preventing rust that destroy objects like coins)-- Extinction in 2041.

Well, while vibranium is fake, tantalum, which is used in smartphones, is real.

However, since collecting Tantalum can be such a precarious process, you'll often have to replay levels multiple times just to progress further in the game.

This creates a frustrating combination of elements that results in losing Tantalum nearly as quickly as it it's gained.

Coltan is a metallic ore that contains tantalum, a key component in the capacitors found in most electronic devices.

The law is clearly aimed at minerals coming out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is rich in minerals used in electronics, such as tantalum and coltan.

Coltan is used to produce the element tantalum, an integral element in the capacitors that are used in almost all cell phones, laptops and other electronic devices.

Other minerals that can be found in solar modules are: copper, silver, cadmium, gold, tantalum, tungsten and tin.

Of the minerals mentioned above, gold, tantalum, tungsten and tin are classified as conflict minerals; a topic widely covered by Ethical Consumer - see our feature on conflict minerals in our special report into the Electronics Industry.

These minerals are processed into metals such as tin and tantalum, which are used in the manufacture of mobile phones.

With most domestic appliances having electronic elements these days, Ethical Consumer expects all companies in this sector to have a policy on the sourcing of the conflict minerals (tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold) which are key components of electronic devices.

The mining of some tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold used in mobile phones has been linked to conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.»

Over the last 15 years, Global Witness has investigated the links between the lucrative trade in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold and armed conflict in eastern Congo.