Word: tantalum
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...choice like that comes with a cost. Congo represents the promise of Africa as much as its misery: its fertile fields and tropical forests cover an area bigger than California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and Texas combined. Its soils are packed with diamonds, gold, copper, tantalum (known locally as coltan and used in electronic devices such as cell phones and laptop computers) and uranium. The waters of its mighty river could one day power the continent. Yet because Congo is so rich in resources, its problems, when left to fester, tend to suck its neighbors into a vortex...
...Freidrich Abendsland, as the ever-confident yet consistently odd William Hard, manages to keep us balancing on the razor's edge of discomfort at which the play's confusion aims. He manages this wonderfully, despite having to deliver tiresome recurring jokes about a mysterious element called tantalum...
Tourists on Thailand's idyllic Phuket Island, where more than 300,000 visitors annually enjoy palm-lined beaches and seaside restaurants, were hard put last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...
During the six-month austral, or southern, summer, when the South Pole is bathed in sunlight 24 hours a day, geologists from the U.S., Australia and New Zealand explored the rocky mountains of Northern Victoria Land. They found signs of such valuable metals as tantalum and lithium, used for making high-strength alloys. The Dufek Massif in the Pensacola Mountains, similar to South Africa's Bushveld, may have platinum and chromium, both strategic metals...
...electronics manufacturers. This week the biggest industrial combine of all ($2.7 billion in sales) will be formed when a new stock issue unites two companies-Pechiney and Ugine Kuhlmann-that dominate Europe in the production of aluminum, stainless steel, specialty steels and nonferrous metals such as titanium, zirconium and tantalum...