Tiny 'Tin Whiskers' Imperil Electronics
They've ruined missiles, silenced communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants to shut down....
The culprits? Tiny splinters - whiskers, they're called - that sprout without warning from tin solder and finishes deep inside electronics. By some estimates, the resulting short-circuits have leveled as much as $10 billion in damage since they were first noticed in the 1940s.
Now they tell us.
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