The Treasury secretary’s four-day trip comes days after China escalated a technological war with the U.S. and Europe by imposing export curbs on chipmaking metals.
  • 0Empty0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If I understand it correctly, gallium and germanium are a byproduct of refining zinc or alumina.

    This is a bit of a problem, because it also seems that China mines the most out of these materials, so it’s not like we could easily just buy these raw materials and have enough to produce even if we invested in our own refineries, no?