Rare : the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth / 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 b...

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Main Author: Veronese, Keith (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2015.
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Physical Description:270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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Call Number: QD172.R2 V43 2015
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