solder
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Tin is an element vital to the artificial intelligence industry, used as solder to attach microchips to circuit boards and bond together other electronics in data centres.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Analysts expect silver prices to remain higher than historical levels because of demand from data centers and other high-tech applications, which use the highly conductive metal for electrical contacts and solder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Over the past century, lead was used in paint, pipes, solder, and, most disastrously, automotive fuel.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
So from a young age, I learned how to solder motherboards and inventory microchips and would write marketing materials for COMDEX, which was the big computer trade show back then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
“Of course. You cannot solder gold with gold.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that neither federal law nor the Constitution shields military contractors if their mistakes or negligence result in solders being injured in a combat zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
In the shade of the barracks, the solders were cleaning their Kalashnikovs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
More often than not, organizations, educational systems, companies and other systems just want good solders who do what they're told and say nothing.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
They said they believed their father was the last survivor of the estimated 85,000 British, Australian and Indian solders who were captured when the British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces in February 1942.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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I’m stripping a century of paint off the door hinges, and I soldered tight a loose brass light fixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
For as long as I can remember, the events of that day have been present with me, soldered deeply into my psyche, though I wasn’t there to witness them firsthand.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024
They also created a low-cost, printed circuit board with built-in digital microfluidics, which the emitter is soldered to.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
She grew up in Fremont, Calif., where her dad launched a startup out of their garage and she soldered motherboards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The armor in use at the time was chain mail, in which every ring had to be soldered by hand.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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One challenge is that piezoelectric resonators physically vibrate, which means they cannot be attached to circuit boards using standard soldering techniques.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026
The term derives from the white crystalline powder used in cleaning, soldering, glass making and in pesticides, which in centuries past was sold as a cure-all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Bolsonaro said he "experienced a certain paranoia between Friday and Saturday due to medication" when he had used a soldering iron on the monitoring bracelet, the document read.
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
Then comes another one as the assembly line continues, the sounds of sewing, stitching, cutting and soldering echoing off the high ceilings.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
And I'm allowed to borrow his fifteen-watt soldering gun.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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