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They have a 17" display in the dashboard. That certainly has some rare earths in it combined with all the latest electronics. Here is an article: http://www.pb
by skriticos2 13y ago
They have a 17" display in the dashboard. That certainly has some rare earths in it combined with all the latest electronics.
Here is an article: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/rare-earth-elements-in-cell-phones/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/rare-earth-element...
- joezydeco 13y agoGood point. Almost every capacitive touchscreen uses a vapor-deposited coating of indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent conductor. Granted, it's a microscopic amount of indium, but still.
- avmich 13y agoIndium isn't a rare earth element, is it?
- jonnathanson 13y agoTechnically it's not in the set of rare earth metals, though it is rare (at least in naturally occurring and isolated form).
- gilgoomesh 13y agoAnd rare earth metals are not rare. So it's completely different.
- 001sky 13y agoTechnically, its a (rare) precious metal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal
- Tuna-Fish 13y agoWhich is a completely different thing than a rare earth metal. (Which incidentally are not rare or precious.) To be fair, the group is badly named, but rare earth metals has a very precise meaning -- if something is not one of the lanthanides, Scandium, or Yttrium, it's not REE.
- r00fus 13y agoAgreed, it is not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element