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Rare : the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth by Keith Veronese is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 of many consumer products like cell phones, hybrid car batteries, and flat screen televisions, as well as sophisticated medical devices and even weapon sy
Who reads Rare : the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Keith Veronese
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books, Publishers; Prometheus Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781616149734
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Engineering, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.35 / 5 (86 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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