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What is in your smartphone?

May 27, 2020 by Pete Burgess

Have you ever wondered what is inside your smartphone? We don’t mean texts and bytes of information, but the chemical elements that make up the device in your hand. University of Plymouth Geologist’s have put one in a blender, melted it and analysed one using geochemical techniques to find out!

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