Toxic elements in e-waste

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Marcel

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This individual has analyzed a Pentium MMX CPU and some memorysticks without gold plating as well as the chips on them.
His name is Tugrul Atmaca and he seems to work for the german-swiss organisation for protection against nuclear radiation.
He found ( apart from PMs) the following toxic elements:
Arsenic,
Cobalt
Antimon
Cadmium

The paper in german language can be found here:

http://fs-ev.de/Nachwuchs/Arbeiten_2007/Projektarbeit_6.pdf
 

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