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bottleneck

noun as in obstacle

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“Propellant powder remains a strategic bottleneck within the defense industry,” he said.

To overcome this bottleneck, researchers launched Ocean Species Discoveries, a data-rich publication platform designed for concise, high-quality marine invertebrate species descriptions.

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This leads to big bottlenecks and long waits.

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“That may hold true if computing power proves the key bottleneck. But if the real constraint is access to cheap, abundant electricity, China could emerge as a far bigger player than markets now anticipate.”

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These include a lack of midstream processing capacity to refine rare-earth oxides and regulatory bottlenecks related to environmental clearances and land acquisition, he says.

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