• gibmiser@lemmy.world
    412·
    11 months ago

    Not thrilled that it is a lead alloy. Just when we are starting to get rid of all the lead in our communities, this would put it back as part of critical infrastructure everywhere…

    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
      20·
      11 months ago

      You probably shouldn’t look up what most solder is made with, then.

      Lead never went away, and it never will. It just stopped being put in things like gas and paint.

      • Superachromat@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        Leas-free solder is now the standard due to RoHS, at least in Europe. It doesn’t stick as well as Pb-Sn solder though, annoyingly.

        • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          The transition to lead free solder (and lack of experience using it) led to the XBox 360 red ring of death issues, Playstation 3 yellow light of death, and nVidia 8000 series no video failures.

          And indeed the transition happened a long time ago.

      • Superachromat@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Leas-free solder is now the standard due to RoHS, at least in Europe. It doesn’t stick as well as Pb-Sn solder though, annoyingly.

    • Chocrates@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      As others have mentioned lead is still everywhere. All our combustion car batteries are still lead/acid batteries, but if what /u/fearout@kbin.social mentioned the paper claims is true, the method for inducing superconductivity in the metal could possibly be used to create other lead free ones.