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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1077350, member: 22143&quot;]The link you posted also says the Chinese and the USA continue to use tin-lead in solder and the Chinese have exempted any lead regulation specifically for electronic.&nbsp; &nbsp; However, if you actually read the articles, you will notice that lead is added for its wetting properties.&nbsp; Take it out and the manufacturing process becomes more expensive and you can&#039;t place components as close together.&nbsp;&nbsp; You comments on the Japanese market is a fallacy even if it did provide you some self humor.&nbsp; 2/3rds of the Japanese manufacturers is not 2/3rds of electronics.&nbsp; Maybe you didn&#039;t realize that Japanese consumer manufacturing has been outsourced to China.&nbsp;&nbsp; They focus on high value low volume applications now. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I don&#039;t consider wikipedia to be definitive.&nbsp; It can be edited by anyone.&nbsp; I mention it because you provided it as some sort of proof without apparently even reading it.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case this is a divergence.&nbsp;&nbsp; The original point I was responding to was the notion that silver is going to go up in value because of it&#039;s use in electronics.&nbsp;&nbsp; I will continue to contend that in electronics its use is non-existent and this has not been proven otherwise.&nbsp;&nbsp; Silver is being run up on the paper COMEX and not due to more Ipods, TVs, and phones being churned out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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