Our Life, in Greater Danger without Lead

Lead is quite a dangerous material, but it's worse without it. Its absence in electronic devices has ruined missiles and stopped from gadgets to communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants. The cause is to be found in the tiny splinters, called whiskers, that develop by the... [ read more >> ]

Leidecker watching an electronical device that has developed tin whiskers

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Leidecker watching an electronical device that has developed tin whiskers