Report Claims PS2's Need for a Certain Metal Helped Fuel a War
...bluish-gray powder called tantalum, which is defined as a transition metal. For the most part, tantalum has one significant use: to satisfy the Wests insatiable appetite for personal technology. Tantalum is used to make cell phones, laptops and other electronics made, for example, by Sony, a multi-billion dollar multinational based in Japan...



