Girls from San Diego to Chicago have put on helmets and safety goggles and learned how to mix concrete, solder pipes together and rewire lamps. Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 More than 1 million of the state’s 4 million drinking water service lines have been flagged for containing levels of lead or lead solder, according to the report, one of the largest shares of lead service pipelines in the nation. Clare Spaulding, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022 Hot-swap and solder PCB options for ease of assembly. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022 Tin is used to produce solder, a melted metal that connects computer chips to circuit boards, so demand has skyrocketed alongside purchases of consumer electronics during the pandemic. Hardika Singh, WSJ, 23 July 2021 The company said the issue is isolated to a limited number of homes that have lead in internal plumbing materials, such as lead solder or lead fixtures, but could not quantify the number of homes. Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021 Drifting at around $14,000 a ton early last year the tin rush started with a surge in demand from the electronics industry where it is used as a solder to be selling on the London Metals Exchange (LME) this week for an all-time high of $32,700/t. Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 18 June 2021 Su also said that AMD's die-to-die approach uses direct copper connections, not solder bumps. Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 1 June 2021 In the past year, Brooks fixed chains in place with gold solder to craft goofy, endearing, googly-eyed brooches, rings, and necklaces.BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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The program, started in 2013, shows future workers how to work in clean labs, build complex circuits on thin silicone discs and how to solder those components into circuit boards and electronics. Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022 Si/TiN ferroelectric capacitors as small as 0.16 µm², and solder reflow compatibility for the first time for this type of memory. Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 The Comet Lake design also includes a thinner die STIM, or solder thermal interface material. Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 30 Apr. 2020 To install these unions, simply clean all the tubing ends and fittings as before, add some flux and solder the parts. Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018 This MacBook has a removable SSD, but on newer models, Apple soldered the SSD into the logic board. Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2019 The sheet was cut into three parts, which were soldered together, hammered, and rolled thin again. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020 The cellular modem is a large separate chip that is soldered onto the motherboard: a Quectel EG25-G.When the back of the phone is peeled off, the innards actually have some special components. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2020 Layers of silver, gold, copper, and a sheet of silver/gold alloy were soldered together in a thin sheet. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
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Middle English soudure, from Anglo-French, from souder to solder, from Latin solidare to make solid, from solidus solid