Categories: Comparisons
"So, just like adding salt and pepper to a meal makes it taste better:
Allison Britt
- putting a little rhenium in a jet engine makes it burn faster and hotter;
- putting a little scandium in an aeroplane makes it lighter and stronger;
- and putting a little indium in your mobile phone makes the touchscreen work."
Allison Britt, Director of Mineral Resources Advice & Promotion, Geoscience Australia was giving a live talk for an episode ('Unseen minerals all around us') of 'Okham's Razor'.
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