Learning on ScreenTantalum Pentoxide
- Synopsis
- Podcast in which Lars Öhrström reveals the hidden chemistry inside modern mobile phones and the reason why current models are so much slimmer than the brick-sized models from the 1980s. Tantalum Pentoxide (Ta2O5) has replaced aluminium oxide in the capacitors, making them much smaller and lighter. [6 minutes]
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2014
- Subjects
- Chemistry
- Keywords
- chemical reactions; copper; mobile phones; nitric acid
Online availability
- URI
- http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/09/tantalumvoxide-pentoxide-podcast
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed/Download
Credits
- Contributor
- Lars Öhrström
Distributor
- Name
Royal Society of Chemistry
- Web
- http://www.rsc.org/ External site opens in new window
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