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China just stopped exporting two minerals the world’s chipmakers need (www.cnn.com)

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[–] Aremel 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where does the rest of the world's gallium and germanium come from?

[–] Brunbrun6766 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada, Finland, Russia and the United States for Germanium.

And both are usually byproducts from zinc refining

[–] ChapolinColoradoNZ 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dumb ass me: "so germanium doesn't come from Germany?!"

[–] Brunbrun6766 6 points 1 year ago

Well it WAS first studied and named in Germany by a German Chemist