{"id":4955,"date":"2010-03-04T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2010-03-04T03:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T08:00:43","slug":"ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4955","title":{"rendered":"Ironic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solder is a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/orangecow.org\/pythonet\/sketches\/woodytin.htm\">woody word<\/a>, even though it contains tin.  And for even more irony (and silvery), there is a new solder that contains iron and silver, and eliminates lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/News\/2010\/03\/Materials-Magnetic-Materials-Magnetic-Solders-Are-Leap-Towards-Green-Alternatives\/\">Magnetic solders are a leap towards green alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By subjecting the solder to an alternating magnetic field, the solder can be selectively heated. This keeps surrounding materials at safe temperatures while melting only the solder itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[A]n external magnetic field can be used to remotely manipulate the solder, so it can be moved into hard-to-reach places, such as narrow vertical channels. This means that broken connections within devices can be \u201cself-healed\u201d by applying a magnetic field to melt the solder and attach the ends together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solder is a nice woody word, even though it contains tin. And for even more irony (and silvery), there is a new solder that contains iron and silver, and eliminates lead. Magnetic solders are a leap towards green alternatives By &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}