Why It Takes 75 Elements To Make Your Cell Phone
Turns out there are some pretty rare elements in your smartphone. How rare are they and what are they doing in your phone? Why Does Your Phone Battery ...
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Ahh, I broke my phone screen. Hey does anyone have any yttrium, terbium, europium, or gadolinium? ….or tape? Hey all you screen time junkies, Trace here for DNews. For futurists, technology is the great unifier, and the internet democratizes communication for all of humanity! The statistics organization IDC estimates 44 percent of the planet is on the internet in 2016, and according to Pew Research, gloabally 54 percent own smartphones. But creating devices to access this future-world of technology, involves pulling lots of minerals from the actual-world we have to live in now! It’s probably no surprise to learn that the modern smartphone is an absurdly complex little rectangle. Inside an iPhone, for example, you can find about 75 of the 118 elements on the periodic table. That’s most ...
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Ahh, I broke my phone screen. Hey does anyone have any yttrium, terbium, europium, or gadolinium? ….or tape? Hey all you screen time junkies, Trace here for DNews. For futurists, technology is the great unifier, and the internet democratizes communication for all of humanity! The statistics organization IDC estimates 44 percent of the planet is on the internet in 2016, and according to Pew Research, gloabally 54 percent own smartphones. But creating devices to access this future-world of technology, involves pulling lots of minerals from the actual-world we have to live in now! It’s probably no surprise to learn that the modern smartphone is an absurdly complex little rectangle. Inside an iPhone, for example, you can find about 75 of the 118 elements on the periodic table. That’s most ...
