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What does contamination even mean in this context?

• andyjohnson0 5y ago
  Impurities in raw materials?
• deleted 5y ago
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• andi999 5y ago
  maybe dust?
• MisterTea 5y ago
  FOD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage Working in Communications/Medical/Aerospace manufacturing, this is a MASSIVE concern.
  • bredren 5y ago
    This is worth a click just to see the “Potential foreign object debris” found in the wheel well of an F/A-18 Hornet on a US aircraft carrier.
    • gpvos 5y ago
      I have now removed that unrelated image.
• usr1106 5y ago
  Exactly. Pretty poor news article not addressing this. At least they could have added "The manufacturer declined to comment on how the contamination occured" if that's the case. Poor manufacturing process? (Of course poor is relative in today's silicon) Sabotage? Earthquake? (They have them all the time) Radiation from Fukushima? (Maybe a bit late 10 years after)
• bell-cot 5y ago
  In scientific terms - some chemical (used in the production) was supposed to be 99.999999% pure...but was not, and the offending impurity(ies) was (in terms of consequences for the uber-delicate production processes) Profoundly Unhelpful. In poetic terms - a hundred thousand tiny demons got loose in the plant, and each and every one of them will need to be laboriously exorcised, before production can resume.