We're Running Out of These Elements — Here's How

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Phones, TVs, solar panels, and electric car batteries are all made of some rare and unusual elements. As our modern world creates more and more of these technologies, will things go from “rare” to “nonexistent” and what will we do then?

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