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minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 months agoIs gold the only thing worth recovering from electronics? Or just the most valuable?
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThe most valuable and easily collected. Chips have many metals in them and sometimes extremely rare metals. Silver, gold, indium, titanium, tungsten, etc all are used to some degree. Among many others, (those are just metals that I personally have experience in, in semiconductors)
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoTantalum in yellow capacitors IIRC
Is gold the only thing worth recovering from electronics? Or just the most valuable?
The most valuable and easily collected.
Chips have many metals in them and sometimes extremely rare metals. Silver, gold, indium, titanium, tungsten, etc all are used to some degree. Among many others, (those are just metals that I personally have experience in, in semiconductors)
Tantalum in yellow capacitors IIRC