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Is there gold inside mobile phones and what's it got to do with organized crime?
Electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, printers, photocopiers, televisions and calculators rely on sensitive low voltages and currents. Tiny amounts of water and air corrode many metals and interfere…
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The boneyard and disarmament (or how to buy a B-52 fighter seat for your office)
During the early 1990s, giant guillotines in Tuscan, Arizona cut up and destroyed about US5.5 billion dollars worth of B-52 bombers. These were the B-52G bomber.
In today's terms, each…
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What's waste got to do with organic chemistry and Queen Victoria's mauve dress?
Mauveine is a purple coloured dye. Before it was invented purple materials were very rare.
Roman emperors used to wear togas that had been dyed purple. But more than ten…
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