Coltan is used for the production of tantalum capacitors.
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Coltan
//ˈkoʊlˌtæn//
Synonyms for "coltan" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
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Translations
17 translations across 14 languages.
Basque
1 entries- koltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Catalan
1 entries- coltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Chinese
1 entries- 鈳鉭鐵礦 /钶钽铁矿 noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Dutch
1 entries- coltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Finnish
1 entries- koltaani noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
French
1 entries- coltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Galician
1 entries- coltán noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
German
1 entries- Coltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Italian
1 entries- coltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Japanese
1 entries- コルタン noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Polish
1 entries- koltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Russian
3 entries- колта́н noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
- колу́мбо-тантали́т noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
- колумби́т-тантали́т noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Spanish
2 entries- coltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
- coltán noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Turkish
1 entries- koltan noun (ore yielding niobium and tantalum)
Sample sentences
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[…] as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.
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Consider your mobile phone. Before it was assembled in a Chinese factory, the coltan in its capacitors may have been dug by miners in the Eastern Congo, where millions have died in a series of wars over ‘conflict minerals’, though we give this no more thought than previous generations of Westerners gave to the Congolese origins of the ivory in their piano keys, the rubber in their tyres, the copper in their bullet casings or the uranium in their bombs.
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