• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I remember a book featuring … Al the Gebra, I think? In it all tungsten in the world disappeared. One thing in the book that surprised young me was that X-ray machines stopped functioning.

    Apparently “tungsten has important niche roles in x-ray tubes.”