coltan

coltan

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• 网络钶钽铁矿；钽矿石；钶钽矿

英汉解释

n.	1. a metallic ore in the form of black sand that occurs mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

例句

The business: Coltan -- short for columbite-tantalite -- is an ore that takes on heat-resistant properties when it gets refined.

商业：Coltan（钶钽铁矿，columbite-tantalite的缩写）是一种在经过提炼后能获得耐热性的铁矿。

Apart from gold, they illicitly sell cassiterite (used in laptops), coltan (mobile phones) and wolframite (light bulbs).

除了金子，他们非法贩卖锡石（用于笔记本电脑），钶钽铁矿（手机）和钨锰铁矿（灯泡）。

The politics: After oil and water, coltan might soon be among the world's most contested resources.

政治：在石油和水之后，钶钽铁矿可能会是世界上争夺最激烈的资源之一。

As attention to conflict minerals expands beyond gold and diamonds, expect "blood coltan" to become a much bigger topic of discussion.

随着对争端矿物（conflictmineral）的关注不再局限于黄金及钻石之上，预计“血钶钽”也将成为一个更大的争论话题。

After all, we need oil, wood, gold, diamonds, coltan, copper.

毕竟，我们需要石油、木材、钻石、铁矿、黄铜。

Both characteristics make coltan an ideal component in circuitry design, and it's these that make the mineral so valuable.

这两种特性让钶钽铁矿成为电路设计的理想材料，也让它价格高企。

Militias were raping six-month-old babies so that countries far away could get access to gold and coltan for their iPhones and computers.

士兵对六个月大的婴童施暴只为了遥远的某个国家可获得黄金和矿物，再来生产Iphone和电脑。

At the Humule coltan mine a few gumbooted miners scramble up a red-earth ravine where last year there were thousands.

在Humule钶钽铁矿一些穿着橡胶靴的矿主攀上一个红色土壤的峡谷，而去年这里有数千人。