An article in the Quartz caught the eye of our edit guys.
It’s about what really goes into the making of smartphones, those tiny mobile computing devices we all carry in our pockets. Interesting experiment. Two lecturers from the University of Plymouth Arjan Dijkstra & Colin Wilkins who carried it out wanted to show just how much of these materials are used in what is quite a small item (phone).
For this, they used an iPhone (OMG).
After putting it in a blender, the two scientists separated its remains into several petri dishes. A small mound of fine powder residue was then mixed with sodium peroxide at a scorching hot temperature of nearly 500˚C (932˚F) to study the chemical composition of the smartphone.
Exciting? Here’s the Quartz report.
